llorona
Spanish
Etymology
Compare llorón.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʝoˈɾona/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɾo.na] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ʎoˈɾona/ [ʎoˈɾo.na] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ʃoˈɾona/ [ʃoˈɾo.na] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ʒoˈɾona/ [ʒoˈɾo.na] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ona
- Syllabification: llo‧ro‧na
Noun
llorona f (plural lloronas)
- (folklore) weeping woman (from the Latin American folkloric legend La Llorona)
- (informal, by extension) banshee
- female equivalent of llorón (“crybaby, whiner”)
Adjective
llorona f
- 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], 10 December 2024