riñón

riñón m (plural riñons)

1. alternative spelling of rinyón (“kidney”)

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “riñón”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

riñón m (plural riñones)

1. alternative form of reñón

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *rēniōnem, from Latin rēn (“kidney”). Cognate with Italian rognone and French rognon. Compare the more archaic word rene.

• IPA^(key): /riˈɲon/ [riˈɲõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ri‧ñón

riñón m (plural riñones)

1. kidney
2. kidney ore, hematite
3. (colloquial) an arm and a leg

   Esto cuesta un riñón

   This costs an arm and a leg

• “riñón”, 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