Old Spanish

Noun

rennon m (plural rennones)

1. (anatomy) kidney
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 56r.
   • Et ſu uertud es atal. que qui beue della peſo de media dragma, q́branta la piedra que ſe faze en la uexiga o en el rennon.

     And its virtue is such that he who drinks of it the wright of one drachma, it shatters the stone that forms in the bladder or the kidney.

   • Idem, f. 102r.

     […] ſana la piedra que ſe faze en la uexiga. o en los rennones. ¬ la quemazon que uiene por goteamiento dela orina.

     […] it heals the stone that forms in the bladder and the kidneys, and the burning caused by the dripping of urine.

Synonyms

• renes f pl

Descendants

• Spanish: riñón