galleon

English

Etymology

From Middle French galion or Spanish galeón. Originally an augmentative form of a Romance language cognate of galley, the word spread around the Mediterranean from the 12th century,^[1] taking on different meanings depending on place and time.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.li.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.li.ən/, /ˈɡæl.jən/

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• Rhymes: -æliən, (General American) -æljən

Noun

galleon (plural galleons)

2. A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

Related terms

• galleass

Translations

large sailing ship

Basque: galeoi Catalan: galió (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 西班牙大帆船 (xībānyá dà fánchuán), 加利恩帆船 (jiālì'ēn fānchuán), 蓋倫帆船／盖伦帆船 (gàilún fānchuán), 大型帆船 (dàxíng fānchuán) Czech: galeona (cs) f Danish: galeon Dutch: galjoen (nl) Estonian: galeoon Finnish: kaljuuna (fi), galeoni French: galion (fr) m Galician: galeón m German: Galeone (de) f Greek: γαλιόνι n (galióni) Hebrew: גליאון (he) m Hungarian: galleon Icelandic: galíon Italian: galeone (it) Japanese: ガレオン船 (gareon sen) Norwegian: Bokmål: gallion m Nynorsk: gallion m Old Galician-Portuguese: galeon m Polish: galeon (pl) m, galeona f Portuguese: galeão (pt) m Romanian: galion (ro) Russian: галео́н (ru) m (galeón) Serbo-Croatian: галеон m, галијун m Roman: galeon m, galijun (sh) m Slovak: galeóna (sk) f Spanish: galeón (es) m Swedish: galeon (sv) Tagalog: galyon, galeyon Turkish: kalyon (tr) Ukrainian: галіон m (halion) Welsh: galiwn f, galiynau f pl

References

1. Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 318

Further reading

• galleon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• allonge