Una inexistente homonímia: historia de gitón (o getón) y guitón

Resum

The inexistence of a would-be homonymy between a ?begging cunning? guitón (vagabond) and a guitón that is actually a gitón, a ?token for counting?, and the origin and the evolution of the mistake are painstakingly traced, from Covarrubias via Autoridades and so on through successive editions of the academic dictionary. This having been cleared up, the biography of both Gallicisms is traced: gitón or getón < Fr. jeton; guitón < Fr. ant. guiton, and some of the words related to the latter are also addressed. Finally, and to avoid confusion, other forms and words are considered which this time are actually homonyms or paronyms of either words: an ancient guitón, which is a variant of guión (?standard?) (also known as guidón), a gitón which is the lexicalisation of a name of a character from Petronius, the learned Hellenism xitón, jitón or quitón ?tunic?, etc.