galón

See also: galon

Ladin

Noun

galón ? (plural [please provide])

1. thigh

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlon/ [ɡaˈlõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ga‧lón

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English gallon.

Noun

galón m (plural galones)

1. English or American gallon (a unit of liquid measure equivalent to 4.55 or 3.79 L)

Coordinate terms

• (English unit): onza (¹⁄₁₂₈ galón), gill (¹⁄₃₂ galón), pinta (¹⁄₈ galones), cuarto (¹⁄₄ galones), barril (31+¹⁄₂ galones)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

Noun

galón m (plural galones)

1. braid
2. (military) stripe, chevron

   tres galones en su uniforme

   three stripes on his/her uniform

   • 1933, Lino Novás Calvo, Blanco, el negrero:

     En esta refriega, Pedro se ganó un galón

     In this skirmish, Pedro won a stripe

Descendants

• → Tagalog: galon

Further reading

• “galón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Anagrams

• anglo
• nogal