caudillo
See also: Caudillo
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin caput, capitis (“head”). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, capitellum, and Kadet. More possible, from kaput and ili (iri, ür, uri: town), from Basque language. In Iberian ili is high point, high city.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caudillo (plural caudillos)
- A leader.
- 2020 June 1, Aris Roussinos, Covid has exposed America as a failed state[1]:
- While an America in decline may throw up a more competent caudillo than Trump in time, it is difficult to reasonably conclude that it possesses the societal solidarity to wage a decades-long, global struggle against a near-competitor.
- A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America.
- 1994 October 14, Dallas Morning News:
- For, despite all the debunking and cynicism in this generation, there still are, amazingly, trusting people around who need to believe in great helmsmen, dear leaders, fuhrers, presidents-for-life, generalissimos and charismatic caudillos.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
military dictator in South America
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Further reading edit
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum. Doublet of cadeau, cadet, and chapiteau.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caudillo m (plural caudillos)
Further reading edit
- “caudillo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish caudillo.
Noun edit
caudillo m (plural caudillo)
Declension edit
Declension of caudillo
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) caudillo | caudilloul | (niște) caudillo | caudilloi |
genitive/dative | (unui) caudillo | caudilloului | (unor) caudillo | caudillolor |
vocative | caudilloule | caudillolor |
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish cabdiello, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin capitem.
Pronunciation edit
- Syllabification: cau‧di‧llo
Noun edit
caudillo m (plural caudillos)
- military leader, caudillo
- 2019 May 16, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, “¿Y ahora qué hacemos con los caudillos?”, in El País[2]:
- La revista The Economist que circula esta semana incluye una larga pieza en la que alerta sobre el fenómeno populista que recorre el continente […] América Latina, afirma, tiene una debilidad no superada por sus caudillos.
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Descendants edit
- → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
- → English: caudillo
- → French: caudillo
- → Portuguese: caudilho
- → Russian: кауди́льо (kaudílʹo)
Further reading edit
- “caudillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- caudillo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es