pulmón

See also: pulmon

Galician

Alternative forms

• pulmom, pulmão (reintegrationist)
• pelmón, polmón

Etymology

Attested circa 1300 as polmon. From Latin pulmō, pulmōnem (“lung”), possibly borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pulˈmoŋ]

Noun

pulmón m (plural pulmóns)

1. lung

   Synonym: livián

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 357:

     Et fereu o caualo da esporas et foy ferir a Meles d'Orep de hũa tã grã ferida en meo do uẽtre que logo lle fezo seýr as tripas et os polmões per sóbrelo arçõ da sela

     And he hit the spurs on the horse and went to hit Meles of Orep such a large wound in the middle of the belly that at the moment he make the guts and lungs to get out over the saddle bow

2. (figurative) endurance, resistance, stamina

   Synonyms: azo, folgo

Derived terms

• pulmoeira
• pulmonía

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “polmon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “polm”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pulmón”, 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), “pulmón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pulmón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish pulmon (“lung”), a borrowing from Latin pulmōnem, pulmō (“lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō. Doublet of pumón.

Noun

pulmón m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פולמון)

1. lung (an organ that extracts oxygen from the air)

   Synonym: pumón

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish pulmon, a borrowing from Latin pulmōnem, pulmō (“lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pulˈmon/ [pulˈmõn]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pul‧món

Noun

pulmón m (plural pulmones)

1. (anatomy) lung

   Synonyms: liviano, bofe

Derived terms

• a pleno pulmón
• caña del pulmón
• llorar a pulmón abierto
• pulmón de acero
• pulmón en libro

 

Related terms

• pulmonar
• pulmonía

 

Further reading

• “pulmón”, 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

Anagrams

• plumón