pulmón

From Latin pulmō, pulmōnem (“lung”), possibly borrowed.

pulmón m (plural pulmones)

1. lung

• pelmón, polmón

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

• IPA^(key): [pulˈmoŋ]

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

• pulmoeira
• pulmonía

• “polmon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “polm” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pulmón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pulmón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pulmón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Old Spanish pulmon, a borrowing[1] from Latin pulmōnem, pulmō (“lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō.

• IPA^(key): /pulˈmon/ [pulˈmõn]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pul‧món

pulmón m (plural pulmones)

1. (anatomy) lung

   Synonyms: liviano, bofe

• “pulmón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• plumón