plastrón

Borrowed from French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentative of piastra (“thin metal plate”), short for impiastro (“plaster”), from Latin emplastrum (compare Spanish emplastro), from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron, “daub, salve”).

• IPA^(key): /plasˈtɾon/ [plasˈt̪ɾõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: plas‧trón

plastrón m (plural plastrones)

1. (zoology) plastron

   Synonym: peto

• “plastrón”, 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