mascarón
Spanish, noun
mascarón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “mascaron” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, mascaron is a different word: “third-person plural preterite indicative of mascar”.
What does mascarón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemascaron
verb
- 1
third-person plural preterite indicative of mascar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cabeza fantástica o grotesca que se esculpe en la clave de un arco, en la proa de antiguos barcos de vela o en las fuentes para arrojar el agua por su boca.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mascarón
- mascarones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mascarón in Spanish?
mascarón appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).