liebre

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin leporem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈljebɾe/

Noun

liebre f (plural liebres)

1. hare
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17v:

     […] pero la gente daq̃lla tierra o ella es mas fallada, llaman le la piedra dela liebre, por eſta razon. q̃ en aquel logar o entra el grand ryo del nilo en la mar medio terrana, cria ſe y un animal que ſemeia en ſus miembros ⁊ en todas ſus fayciones ala liebre de tierra. ⁊ por endel llaman liebre marina.

     […] but the people of that land, where it is most found, call it the stone of the hare for this reason; that in that place, where the great river Nile enters the Mediterranean Sea, there breeds an animal that is similar in its limbs and all of its features to the land hare, and thus they call it a marine hare.

Descendants

• Spanish: liebre
  • → Tagalog: liyebre

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish liebre, from Latin leporem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈljebɾe/ [ˈlje.β̞ɾe]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ebɾe
• Syllabification: lie‧bre

Noun

liebre f (plural liebres)

1. hare, jackrabbit
2. pacesetter

Derived terms

• alebrarse
• dar gato por liebre
• liebre de California
• liebre de Tehuantepec
• liebre europea
• liebre torda
• oreja de liebre
• pie de liebre
• vender gato por liebre

 

Related terms

• lebrel
• lebrero

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: liyebre

Further reading

• “liebre”, 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