riñón

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riñón m (plural riñons)

1. kidney

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

riñón m (plural riñones)

1. Alternative form of reñón

From Vulgar Latin *rēniō, *rēniōnem, from Latin rēn (“kidney”), from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”). Cognate with Italian rognone and French rognon.

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014