pregón

From Old Galician-Portuguese pregon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin praecōnem. Cognate with Portuguese pregão and Spanish pregón.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈɣoŋ/

pregón m (plural pregóns)

1. proclamation; public announcement
2. auction
   • 1399, M. Lucas Alvarez; M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 268:

     logo apregôôu Fernan de Carnota, pregoeyro da dita villa de Muro, o qual Fernan de Carnota pregoou altas vozes em publica plaça as ditas herdades; et logo Aluaro Ledo disso que daua por llas ditas herdades de todo o dito alfoz que perteeçia ao dito Pero Eanes tres mill et seysçentos morauedis de moeda vella; asy andaron a pregon et leylla, et non vêêo quen mays pojasse nas ditas herdades

     then it was announced by Fernán de Carnota, town crier of said town of Muros, who announced in high voices in public space said properties; and then Álvaro Ledo said that he bid for all the properties belonging to said Pero Eanes in the town district three thousand and six hundred maravedis of old coinage; and so they were in auction and public sale, and nobody came to bid more for these properties

• pregoar
• pregoeiro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pregon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pregon”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pregón”, 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), “pregón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pregón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin praecōnem. Compare Portuguese pregão.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈɡon/ [pɾeˈɣ̞õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pre‧gón

pregón m (plural pregones)

1. proclamation

• “pregón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024