Asturian

Adjective

español m sg ‎(feminine singular española, neuter singular español, masculine plural españoles, feminine plural españoles)

1. Spanish; pertaining to Spain, its people, culture, or language

Inflection

Noun

español m sg ‎(feminine singular española, masculine plural españoles, feminine plural españoles)

1. a Spaniard (man)

Proper noun

español m

1. Spanish, Castilian (language)

Galician

Etymology

Compare Spanish español.

Adjective

español m (feminine singular española, masculine plural españois, feminine plural españolas)

1. Spanish; pertaining to Spain, its people, culture, or language

Noun

español m ‎(plural españois, feminine española, feminine plural españolas)

1. Spaniard (man)
2. Spanish, Castilian (language)

Spanish

Etymology

Probably a thirteenth-century borrowing from Old Provençal espaignol (compare modern Occitan espanhòl, Catalan espanyol, French espagnol), from Vulgar Latin *Hispaniolus ‎(“of Spain”)^[1], from Latin Hispānus, from Hispania. According to phonetic rules, if inherited from Latin, the Castilian Spanish result would have been *españuelo (though some argue that this did not take root because the suffix -uelo would be perceived as diminutive; more likely, it was simply because there was no need at the time for a common secular name for all the inhabitants of Christian Iberia/Spain, and a common identity as a unified people or entity had not yet been formed. Until then, the people used cristiano ‎(“Christian”) to refer to themselves). The word español was supposedly imported from Provence by a medieval chronicler (it was originally introduced by pilgrims in Santiago) because there was no existing translation of the earlier Roman word Hispani when writing a chronicle of Spanish history, but this was the word Provençal speakers used to refer to the Christian kingdoms of what would later become Spain^[2]. In Old Spanish there was also a form españón which disappeared after the first half of the 14th century, possibly derived from a Vulgar Latin *Hispaniōnem^[3]. Compare also espanesco, the word Mozarabic speakers used for themselves, presumably from a Vulgar Latin *Hispaniscus.^[4]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es.paˈɲol/

Adjective

español m ‎(feminine singular española, masculine plural españoles, feminine plural españolas)

1. Spanish (from or native to Spain)
2. Spanish (pertaining to Spain or to the language)

Noun

español m ‎(plural españoles, feminine española)

1. Spaniard (man)
2. the Spanish language

Synonyms

• (language): castellano

Related terms

• España
• españolado
• españolismo
• españolista
• españolización
• españolizado
• españolizar

Anagrams

References

1. ↑ http://dle.rae.es/?id=GUSX1EQ
2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=uJdbJK_sl2oC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=V4f8ZpJAhgIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=uJdbJK_sl2oC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false