golondrino

golondrino

Old Spanish

Etymology

Masculine form of golondrina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡolonˈdɾino/

Noun

golondrino m (plural golondrinos)

1. The chick or young of a barn swallow.
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 27r.

     […] ṕo non faz eſta uertud ſi non ſi eſtudieren amas las piedras en uno, o non fueren dun golondrino pollo.

     […] But it does not have this virtue if both stones are not placed in one, or if they are not from the chick of a swallow.

Descendants

• Spanish: golondrino

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Spanish

Noun

golondrino m (plural golondrinos, feminine golondrina, feminine plural golondrinas)

1. young swallow
2. (military) deserter, AWOL
3. traveller, vagabond

Noun

golondrino m (plural golondrinos)

1. boil under the armpit

Further reading

• “golondrino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014