paloma

From Spanish paloma (“dove”).

paloma (plural palomas)

1. A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda.
   • 2020, Yoav Landau, Sam Haft, “Drunk”, in zero_one, performed by The Living Tombstone:

     Martini, Bellini, Negroni, Baileys, Kahlúa, sambuca
     Soju, paloma, mojito, gimlet, Frangelico, Guinness
     Tequila, Manhattan, a margarita, old-fashioned
     Dry vermouth and something I can't taste 'cause I'm so trashed

Inherited from Vulgar Latin palumba, from Latin palumbus, palumbēs (“wood pigeon”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈlo.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈlo.ma]

paloma f (plural palomes)

1. a parasol mushroom, especially the highly edible Macrolepiota procera

   Synonyms: apagallums, cogomella, coloma, maneta

2. (dialectal) butterfly

   Synonym: papallona

3. (dialectal, archaic) dove, pigeon

   Synonym: colom

• palomino

• “paloma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “paloma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Spanish paloma (“dove”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈloma/, [paˈlo.ma]
• Hyphenation: pa‧lo‧ma

paloma

1. dove

Borrowed from Spanish paloma (“dove”).

paloma

1. bird

• Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 131

Inherited from Old Spanish paloma, from Vulgar Latin palumba, from Latin palumbus, palumbēs (“wood pigeon”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈloma/ [paˈlo.ma]

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• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: pa‧lo‧ma

paloma f (plural palomas, masculine palomo, masculine plural palomos)

1. dove, pigeon
2. (Central America, Venezuela, vulgar, rare) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

• (dove, pigeon): pichón

paloma m or f (masculine and feminine plural paloma or palomas)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador) difficult, complicated

   La última pregunta del examen estaba bien paloma.

   The last question of the test was really hard.

2. (colloquial, El Salvador, of a person) skillful, smart, deft

   Nunca he conocido a una persona tan paloma como ella.

   I've never met a person as skillful as her.

• “palomo”, 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
• “ser”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010