botón

botón

See also: boton

Asturian

Noun

botón m (plural botones)

1. button
2. bud (of a leaf or flower)

Related terms

• abotonar

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Galician

Alternative forms

• botão (Reintegrationist)
• botom (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

13th century. Probably from Old French bouton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈtoŋ/

Noun

botón m (plural botóns)

1. button
   • 1321, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 119:

     Iten xvi botoes que ten Fernan Peres de Meyra por v mor. Iten outros xvi botoes que ten Juana

     Item, 16 buttons that are kept by Fernán Pérez de Meira, by 5 mor. Item, another 16 buttons that are kept by Xoana

2. bud (of a leaf or flower)
3. sucker (of a cephalopod)

Derived terms

• abotoador
• abotoar
• botoadura
• botón de ouro

 

References

• “botoadura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “boto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “boton” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “botón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “botón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from botar, or from Old French bouton. Compare Italian bottone, Portuguese botão.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈton/ [boˈt̪õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bo‧tón

Noun

botón m (plural botones)

1. button (clothing, mechanical)

   darle al botón ― to press a button

2. key (on a musical instrument)
3. bud (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)

Derived terms

• abotonar
• botón de oro
• para muestra basta un botón

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: butones
• → Guaraní: votõ
• → Tagalog: boton, botones
• → Taos: bùtún-

Further reading

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