pulmón

• IPA^(key): /pulˈmoŋ/

pulmón m pl

1. plural of pulmån

• pulmom, pulmão (reintegrationist)
• 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

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

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

pulmón m (Hebrew spelling פולמון)^[2]

1. lung (an organ that extracts oxygen from the air)

   Synonym: pumón

   • 1888, “La eskalera”, in Folkmasa‎^[1]:

     los pulmones se pueden yamar el foyo; la garganta i las narizes, los tubos; la kavidad de la boka, el arko del aire; i las interiores diviziones de la boka, las teklas

     The lungs can be called the bellows; the throat and the noses, tubes; the oral cavity the air arch; and the mouth’s interior divisions, keys.

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• plumón