cartón

See also: carton and Carton

Galician

Alternative forms

• cartom, cartão (reintegrationist)

Etymology

First attested in 1813. From carta +‎ -ón; compare Spanish cartón and Portuguese cartão.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈtoŋ/ [kɑɾˈt̪oŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: car‧tón

Noun

cartón m (plural cartóns)

1. cardboard
   • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun galego:

     Meigas, feitizos e bruxas
     que persigue a Inquisicion,
     sin mascara, socaliñas
     de cregos e frades son.
     Chamanlles bruxas à ás vellas
     por ter cara de carton;
     pero solamente hay meygas
     en donde hay Inquisicion.
     As femias da nosa especie
     de certa constitucion
     fan visaxes, e son tolas,
     pero feitizeiras non.

     Witches, spells and hexes,
     who are prosecuted by the Inquisition,
     maskless, hoaxes
     of priests and friars are.
     They call hex an old lady
     because her face is made of cardboard;
     but there are witches
     just where it is Inquisition.
     Females of our species,
     of certain constitution,
     make gestures, and are mad,
     but sorceresses they are not.

2. card
3. carton

   Quero un cartón de leite de vaca.

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Related terms

• carta

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carton”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cartón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cartón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cartón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From carta +‎ -ón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈton/ [kaɾˈt̪õn]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: car‧tón

Noun

cartón m (plural cartones)

1. cardboard, paperboard
2. cardboard box
3. (colloquial, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile) certificate (A document serving as evidence that a person has completed an educational course)

Derived terms

• acartonar
• cartón corrugado
• cartón espuma
• cartón piedra
• cartón yeso
• cartonaje
• lotería de cartones
• sin trampa ni cartón

 

Further reading

• “cartón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• “cartón” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010

Anagrams

• cantor
• contar
• contra
• cortan
• cratón
• tranco
• tronca