Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Old Spanish terms inherited from Latin#LIEBRECategory:Old Spanish terms derived from Latin#LIEBRE leporem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈljebɾe/Category:Old Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#LIEBRE

Noun

liebre fCategory:Old Spanish lemmas#LIEBRECategory:Old Spanish nouns#LIEBRECategory:Old Spanish entries with incorrect language header#LIEBRECategory:Old Spanish feminine nouns#LIEBRECategory:Pages with entries#LIEBRECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LIEBRE (plural liebres)Category:osp-noun needing attention

1. hare
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17v:

     […] pero la gente daq̃lla tierra o ella es mas fallada, llaman le la piedra dela liebre, por eſta razon. q̃ en aquel logar o entra el grand ryo del nilo en la mar medio terrana, cria ſe y un animal que ſemeia en ſus miembros ⁊ en todas ſus fayciones ala liebre de tierra. ⁊ por endel llaman liebre marina.

     […] but the people of that land, where it is most found, call it the stone of the hare for this reason; that in that place, where the great river Nile enters the Mediterranean Sea, there breeds an animal that is similar in its limbs and all of its features to the land hare, and thus they call it a marine hare.

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Etymology

Inherited from Old SpanishCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish#LIEBRECategory:Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish#LIEBRE liebre, from LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Latin#LIEBRECategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#LIEBRE leporem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈljebɾe/ [ˈlje.β̞ɾe]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#LIEBRECategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#LIEBRE

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• Rhymes: -ebɾeCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ebɾe#LIEBRECategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ebɾe/2 syllables#LIEBRE
• Syllabification: lie‧bre

Noun

liebre f (plural liebres)Category:Spanish lemmas#LIEBRECategory:Spanish nouns#LIEBRECategory:Spanish countable nouns#LIEBRECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#LIEBRECategory:Spanish feminine nouns#LIEBRECategory:Pages with entries#LIEBRECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LIEBRE

1. hare, jackrabbit
2. pacesetter

Further reading

• “liebre”, 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