# varón
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* varom, varão (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese varon, baron (13th century), from Latin barōnem (“man”). Doublet of barón.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baˈɾoŋ/ [baˈɾoŋ]
* Rhymes: -oŋ
* Hyphenation: va‧rón
* Homophone: barón

### Noun

varón m (plural varóns)
* man (adult male human)
** 13th century, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, p. 699:
    aquel pecado escumungado que fazen os barones unos con outrosthat excommunicated sin that men do with one another
** c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 814:ca esta (he) muy boa et nobre rreyna dona Berĩguela co[m] tamana aguça gardou sempre este fillo et llj meteu no curaçõ feyto de obras de piedade de ome barõ, mãçebo et nino, et todo linagẽ de omes -esto he barõ et moller-because this very noble and excellent queen, Lady Berenguela, with great care protected her son and put in his heart acts of piety of adult man, young man and boy, and of all the lineage of men -that is, man and woman-
    Synonym: home

#### Derived terms

* baril
* bon varón

#### Related terms

* barón
* baronesa
* baronía

### Further reading

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “barón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “baron”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “baron”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “varon”, 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), “varón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “varón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* baron" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish varon, baron, from Latin barōnem. Doublet of barón.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baˈɾon/ [baˈɾõn]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -on
* Syllabification: va‧rón
* Homophone: barón

### Noun

varón m (plural varones)
* person of male sex
    Synonyms: hombre, macho
    Coordinate term: hembra
    un estudiante varón ― a male student
** 1882, José Zorrilla, chapter IX, in La leyenda del Cid:Y es: que entonces un varón poderoso, desterrado por su Rey, se iba a otro Estado a servir a otra nación.And it is: that a powerful man, exiled by his King, went to another State to serve another nation.

#### Derived terms

* varoncito
* varonil

#### Related terms

* barón

### Further reading

* “varón”, 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