eslabón

Meaning

link (of a chain)

Concepts

link

🔗

chain link

cog

ring

💍

sprocket

steel

Synonyms

argolla

clavija

enlace

🔗

oruga

🐛

anilla

💍

diente de engranaje

piñón

rueda dentada

diente de rueda

Translations

maillon

🔗

chaînon

🔗

Verknüpfung

🔗

anello

💍

acciarino

schakel

maglia

elo

🔗

copulare

link

briquet

Kettenglied

baula

🔗

rouage

🛞

Hyphenated as

es‧la‧bón

Pronounced as (IPA)

/eslaˈbon/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish: eslavón

Cognate with Old High German: snuoba

Cognate with Latin: numella

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish eslavón, esclavón. Probably from Gothic *𐍃𐌽𐍉𐌱𐍉 (*snōbō), from Proto-Indo-European *snēp-, a variant of *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, to weave”), related to Old High German snuoba, snuaba (“loop, link”), which is possibly cognate to pre-Classical Latin numella (“collar on the neck to impede movement”). Compare further at Proto-Slavic *snopъ (“bundle, sheaf”).
Coromines and Pascual reject this etymology due to the Germanic term being attested in Old High German only, and because words of this declension are typically borrowed with -o or -a (cf. frasco), suggesting instead that it was derived from esclavo (“slave”) + -ón, the former borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), referring to the Slav trade in slaves.

Sentences

Luego vendría la búsqueda sin fin del fantasma del eslabón perdido .

Then would come the endless search for the ghost of the missing link.