esmerejón
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish esmerejón, esmerijón, calque of Old French esmerillon, diminutive of esmeril, from Medieval Latin smerillus, from Proto-West Germanic *smiril, from Proto-Germanic *smirilaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /esmeɾeˈxon/ [ez.me.ɾeˈxõn]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: es‧me‧re‧jón
Noun
[edit]esmerejón m (plural esmerejones)
- merlin (small falcon)
Further reading
[edit]- “esmerejón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
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- Spanish terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/4 syllables
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Falconids