galón
See also: galon
Ladin
Noun
galón ? (plural [please provide])
- thigh
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈlon/ [ɡaˈlõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ga‧lón
Etymology 1
From English gallon
Noun
galón m (plural galones)
- English or American gallon, a unit of liquid measure equivalent to 4.55 or 3.79 L
Coordinate terms
- (English unit): onza (1/128 galones), gill (1/32 galones), pinta (⅛ galones), cuarto (¼ galones), barril (31½ galones)
Etymology 2
From French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”). As an English unit, calqued from English gallon.
Noun
galón m (plural galones)
- braid
- (military) stripe, chevron
Descendants
- → Tagalog: galon
Further reading
- “galón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- anglo
- nogal