pavón

See also: pavon

Galician

un pavón (a peacock)

Alternative forms

• pavom, pavão (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pavon (independently attested in both corpora), from Latin pāvōnem, accusative singular of pāvō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈboŋ/ [paˈβ̞oŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: pa‧vón

Noun

pavón m (plural pavóns)

1. peacock
   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria, Oviedo: Archivum, page 259:

     o pauõ mostra a vida dos rricos, que ẽnobreçẽ, et afeytam, et cõpoem suas deanteyras et leyxam descuberta moy torpemẽte sua postromaria

     the peacocks show the lifestyle of the rich people, who grace, and adorn, and set up their front sides and let their backsides clumsily uncovered

See also

• pavo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pauõ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pauõ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pavón”, 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), “pavón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Further reading

• “pavón”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pāvōnem (accusative form). Doublet of pavo, which came via the nominative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈbon/ [paˈβ̞õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pa‧vón

Noun

pavón m (plural pavones)

1. (rare) peacock
2. moth of the genus Saturnia (so called because of the spots in its wings resemble those of the peacock)

Derived terms

• pavonearse

 

Related terms

• pavo

 

Further reading

• “pavón”, 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