pueblo
See also: Pueblo
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpwɛbləʊ/
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Noun
pueblo (plural pueblos)
- A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. [from 19th c.]
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 17:
- ‘And their flats and houses?’ Jane pointed to a custer of executive villas in the pueblo style.
Derived terms
Translations
community of Pueblo Indians
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pwe.blo/
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See also
Old Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpweblo/
Noun
pueblo m (plural pueblos)
- people, nation
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a.
- & dixo aella .ij. / gẽtes a ento vientre. & .ij. pu / eblos de tus entrãnas. ẏ ſtran.
- And he said to her: "two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated."
- Idem, f. 12r. b.
- E dixo dios cate & ui. afflicci- / on de myo pueblo q̃ es en egip / to.
- And God said: "I have noticed and seen the affliction of my people in Egypt."
- Idem, 13r. b.
- E dixierõ / a pharaon eſto diz el sẽnor. Dios / de iſrꝉ dexa mio pueblo. e ſeruir / me a en el deſerto.
- And they said to pharaoh: "this is what the Lord, God of Israel, says: 'let my people go and they shall serve me in the desert'."
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a.
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Ometepec Nahuatl
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpweblo/ [ˈpwe.β̞lo]
- Rhymes: -eblo
- Syllabification: pue‧blo
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”).
Noun
pueblo m (plural pueblos)
- town, village
- the common people, the working classes
- Synonym: clase obrera
- population, people
- Synonym: población
- nation
- Synonym: nación
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pueblo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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