muñón
Spanish
Etymology
Unknown, possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; compare muñeca (“wrist”) and moño (“bun”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muˈɲon/ [muˈɲõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: mu‧ñón
Noun
muñón m (plural muñones)
- the stump of a limb which has been lost
- Synonym: ñuco
- a part of the body which was incomplete at birth
- deltoids
- Synonym: deltoides
- (military) a piece of large firearm hardware made up of cylinders that hold a gun carriage in place while it is rotated
Further reading
- “muñón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014