pavón

pavón

See also: pavon

Galician

un pavón (a peacock)

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pavon (independently attested in both corpora), from Latin pāvōnem, accusative singular of pāvō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˈβoŋ]

Noun

pavón m (plural pavóns)

1. peacock
   • 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Oviedo: Archivum, page 259:

     o pauõ mostra a vida dos rricos, que ẽnobreçẽ, et afeytam, et cõpoem suas deanteyras et leyxam descuberta moy torpemẽte sua postromaria

     the peacocks show the lifestyle of the rich people, who grace, and adorn, and set up their front sides and let their backsides clumsily uncovered

See also

• pavo

References

• “pauõ” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pauõ” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pavón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pavón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Further reading

• “pavón” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pāvōnem (accusative form). Doublet of pavo, which came via the nominative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈbon/ [paˈβ̞õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pa‧vón

Noun

pavón m (plural pavones)

1. (rare) peacock
2. moth of the genus Saturnia (so called because of the spots in its wings resemble those of the peacock)

Derived terms

• pavonearse

Related terms

• pavo

Further reading

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