liebre
Appearance
Old Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]liebre f (plural liebres)
- 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
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish liebre, from Latin leporem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]liebre f (plural liebres)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: liyebre
Further reading
[edit]- “liebre”, 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
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ebɾe
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