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Meaning of leitón | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
lejˈtoŋ

Definitions

  1. piglet
    masculine
  2. unripe corn ear
    masculine
  3. Equivalent to 'suckling pig': An unweaned pig, especially one whose carcass is roasted whole on a spit.

Equivalents

العربية خنزير الرضاعة
Čeština podsvinče
Ελληνικά γουρουνάκι
Español cochinillo lechón
Suomi maitoporsas
Français cochon de lait
한국어 애저
Nederlands speenvarken
Português leitão
Română purcel de lapte
Svenska spädgris
ไทย หมูหัน
Tagalog biik kulig litson
Tiếng Việt lợn sữa

Examples

“Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d'Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçes”

Item, Xoán Cortido, neighbor of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath they'd done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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