latón

See also: laton

Ligurian

Etymology

From Arabic لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”), itself ultimately from Turkic, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (l¹t¹un¹, “gold”). Compare Turkish altın, Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (altun, “gold”), Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ (altūn, “gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈtuŋ/

Noun

latón m (invariable)

1. brass (metal alloy)

Related terms

• latonê

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈton/ [laˈt̪õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: la‧tón

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”), itself ultimately of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (l¹t¹un¹, “gold”). Compare Turkish altın, Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ (altūn, “gold”).

Noun

latón m (plural latones)

1. brass

   Synonym: azófar

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *lotōnem, derived from Latin lotus, a borrowing from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós). Coromines & Pascual posit that the Spanish word's unvoiced /-t-/ is due to borrowing from Aragonese, presumably meaning the Pyrenean varieties that did not lenite intervocalic Latin /p t k/.

Noun

latón m (plural latones)

1. (colloquial) hackberry

Further reading

• “latón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “latón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 605