gerifalte

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ge‧ri‧fal‧te === Noun === gerifalte m (plural gerifaltes) gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) === Further reading === “gerifalte”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “gerifalte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From Old French girfaut, gerfault or Provençal gerfalt, gerfalc, both from Old Norse geirfalki, from geiri (“a type of dart”) + falki (“hawk”) (because of the resemblance to the bird's plumage). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /xeɾiˈfalte/ [xe.ɾiˈfal̪.t̪e] Rhymes: -alte Syllabification: ge‧ri‧fal‧te === Noun === gerifalte m (plural gerifaltes) gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus Synonym: halcón gerifalte bigwig; big cheese Synonyms: barón, pez gordo === Further reading === “gerifalte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 gerifalte on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es