# colchón
## Asturian
### Noun

colchón m (plural colchones)
* mattress

#### Related terms

* colcha

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* colchom, colchão (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

First attested in 1457. From colcha +‎ -ón, from Old French colche. Compare Portuguese colchão and Spanish colchón.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kolˈt͡ʃoŋ/ [kolʲˈt͡ʃoŋ]
* Rhymes: -oŋ
* Hyphenation: col‧chón

### Noun

colchón m (plural colchóns)
* mattress
** 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:
    Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

#### Related terms

* colcha

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “colchon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “colch”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “colchón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “colchón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “colchón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Spanish
### Etymology

From colcha +‎ -ón. Cognate with Portuguese colchão.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kolˈt͡ʃon/ [kolʲˈt͡ʃõn]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -on
* Syllabification: col‧chón

### Noun

colchón m (plural colchones)
* mattress (pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
* buffer, cushion, padding (something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact)
* (figurative) nest egg

#### Derived terms

* colchón de agua
* colchón de aire
* colchón de muelles
* colchón de novia
* colchonero
* colchoneta

#### Related terms

* acolchonar

#### Descendants

* Chavacano: colchon
* → Basque: koltxoi
* → Cebuano: kutson
* → Hiligaynon: koltson
* → Maguindanao: kutsun
* → Sambali: kotson
* → Tagalog: kutson

### Further reading

* “colchón”, 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