peón
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- foot soldier, infantryman
- child's toy top
- piece, token, or man in board games
- (mechanical) axle, spindle
- beehive
- laborer, worker
- (bullfighting) matador's assistant
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pedōnem, pedō, pedem, pes, pēs (foot).
Origin
Latin
pedem, pes, pēs
Gloss
foot
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- peon English
- pedem, pes, pēs Latin
- pedō Latin
- pedōnem Latin
- pedōnem, pedō Latin
- pedonabile Italian
- pedonale Italian
- pedone Italian
- piede Italian
- pion Dutch, Flemish
- morpion French
- pion French
- pionique French
- pionner French
- péon French
- *pṓds Proto-Indo-European
- peão Portuguese
- peon Old French
- pié Old French
- poon Old French
- peó Catalan, Valencian
- pion Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- πιόνι Greek (modern)
- piono Ido
- piyon Turkish
- pion Middle French
- פּיאָן Yiddish
- pee Old Portuguese
- peon Old Portuguese
- pe Romansh
- pei Romansh
- peón Asturian
- pe Old Occitan
- poun xno
- peyu Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- pioóñi Northern Tepehuan