llorona

== Spanish == === Etymology === Compare llorón. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ona Syllabification: llo‧ro‧na === Noun === llorona f (plural lloronas) female equivalent of llorón (“crybaby, whiner”) (folklore) weeping woman (from the Latin American folkloric legend La Llorona) (informal, by extension) banshee (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) he huckleberry (Cyrilla racemiflora) (Puerto Rico) Lesser Antillean pewee (Contopus latirostris) Synonym: pibí puertorriqueño === Adjective === llorona f feminine singular of llorón === Further reading === “llorón”, 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 “llorona”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010