melocotón

• maracatón (Mañegu, archaic)

Borrowed from Spanish melocotón, from Latin mālum cotōnium.

• IPA^(key): /melokoˈton/
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: me‧lo‧co‧tón

melocotón m (plural (Lagarteiru, Mañegu) melocotós or (Valverdeñu) melocotóns)

1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) peach (fruit)

   Synonyms: prisegu (Lagarteiru), présigu (Valverdeñu, dated)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Borrowed from Latin mālum cotōnĭum (“quince”), with influence from Spanish melón. Like quinces, peaches have a cottony fruit skin.

• IPA^(key): /melokoˈton/ [me.lo.koˈt̪õn]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: me‧lo‧co‧tón

melocotón m (plural melocotones)

1. (Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Spain) peach

   Synonym: (Latin America) durazno

• →? Catalan: melicotó, melocotó, melacotó
• → English: melocoton
• → Portuguese: melocotão

• “melocotón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10