león
Meaning
- (masculine) lion
- (masculine) antlion
- (masculine) lion
- (figuratively,masculine) a brave person
- (Central-America,Colombia,Peru,Venezuela,masculine) cougar, puma, mountain lion
- (masculine) a person connected with Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish football team from the city of Bilbao
Concepts
Frequency
Hyphenated as
le‧ón
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/leˈon/
Etymology
From Latin leōnem (compare Catalan lleó, French lion, Galician león, Italian leone, Portuguese leão, Romanian leu), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), of Semitic origin. Doublet of leu.
Cognate with Catalan
lleó
Cognate with French
lion
Cognate with Galician
león
Cognate with Portuguese
leão
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