noun, masculine/baˈxon/plural: bajones
bassoon; bassoonist
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βάσις (básis)bor.?
Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús)bor.?
Oscanbor.?
Celticbor.?
Late Latin bassus
Spanish bajo
Spanish -ón
Spanish bajón
From bajo (“low, not high”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
noun, masculine/baˈxon/plural: bajones
lull, low, dip, drop (decline); blues, slump (lack of spirit); ellipsis of bajón de electricidad (“power outage”); appetite (Desire to eat food or consume drink)
“estar de bajón” — to be down in the dumps
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βάσις (básis)bor.?
Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús)bor.?
Oscanbor.?
Celticbor.?
Latin bassus
Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
Latin -iāre
Vulgar Latin *bassiāre
Old Spanish baxar
Spanish bajardeverb.
Spanish baja
Spanish -ón
Spanish bajón
From baja (“act or event of going down”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).