adelita
See also: Adelita
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editadelita (plural adelitas)
- A female soldier during the Mexican revolution
- 1988 July 15, David Fremon, “Look-Alike Contest”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- An employee of the city's Latino Affairs Commission, she looks like an adelita (a woman soldier and camp follower) in her blouse, long skirt, and sash crisscrossing her chest.
Translations
editSpanish
editEtymology
editFrom the name Adelita.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editadelita f (plural adelitas)
Descendants
edit- → English: adelita
Further reading
edit- “adelita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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