English

Proper noun

Pueblo

1. A city in Colorado.

English

Noun

pueblo ‎(plural pueblos)

1. 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 2011, p. 17:

     ‘And their flats and houses?’ Jane pointed to a custer of executive villas in the pueblo style.

Translations

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *poplum, from Latin populum, singular accusative of populus ‎(“people, nation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpwe.βlo]

Noun

pueblo m (plural pueblos)

1. people, nation
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a.

     & dixo aella. ij. / gétes a ento vientre. &. ij. pu / eblos de tus entránas. ý ſtran.

     And he said to her: "two nations are in your womb, and to peoples from within you will be separated."

   • Idem, f. 12r. b.

     E dixo dios cate & ui. afflicci- / on de myo pueblo q es en egip / to.

     And God said: "I have noticed and seen the affliction of my people in Egypt."

   • Idem, 13r. b.

     E dixieró / a pharaon eſto diz el sénor. Dios / de iſrl´ 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'.'

Related terms

• poblar

Descendants

• Ladino: puevlo (Latin spelling)
• Spanish: pueblo

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish pueblo, from Vulgar Latin *poplum, from Latin populum, singular accusative of populus ‎(“people, nation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpwe.blo/, [ˈpwe.βlo]

Noun

pueblo m ‎(plural pueblos)

1. town, village
2. the common people, the working classes
3. population, people, nation

Related terms

• población
• poblar

See also

• aldea
• ciudad
• nación

Verb

pueblo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of poblar.