pendón

• pendom, pendão (reintegrationist)
• pondón

From Old Galician-Portuguese pendon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French pennon. Cognate with, among others, Portuguese pendão.

• IPA^(key): /penˈdoŋ/ [pen̪ˈd̪oŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: pen‧dón

pendón m (plural pendóns)

1. pennon
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 480:

     Et alý ouuo muytas feridas de lanças et d'espadas, et muytos pendões ensangoentados, et muytos colpes esquiuos et desapostos, et muytos caualeyros mortos et aontados et fora das sellas.

     And there were many wounds of spears and swords, and many bloodied pennons, and many unruly and ugly blows, and many dead and shamed and unsaddled knights

2. tassel (inflorescence of maize)

   Synonym: cenceno

• espendoar

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

From Old French pennon, diminutive of penne (“feather”), from Latin penna (“feather, wing”).

• IPA^(key): /penˈdon/ [pẽn̪ˈd̪õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pen‧dón

pendón m (plural pendones)

1. pennant, pennon
2. slob

pendón (feminine pendona, masculine plural pendones, feminine plural pendonas)

1. slut, libertine, loose
2. prostitute

• “pendón”, 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