llorona

Spanish

Etymology

Compare llorón.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝoˈɾona/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɾo.na]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ʝoˈɾona/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɾo.na]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ʎoˈɾona/ [ʎoˈɾo.na]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃoˈɾona/ [ʃoˈɾo.na]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒoˈɾona/ [ʒoˈɾo.na]

• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: llo‧ro‧na

Noun

llorona f (plural lloronas)

1. (folklore) weeping woman (from the Latin American folkloric legend La Llorona)
2. (informal, by extension) banshee
3. female equivalent of llorón (“crybaby, whiner”)

Adjective

llorona f

1. feminine singular of llorón

Further reading

• “llorón”, 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