pueblo
See also: Pueblo
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus. Doublet of people.
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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.
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community of Pueblo Indians
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Etymology edit
From Spanish pueblo. Doublet of people and peuple.
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pueblo (invariable)
- Pueblo
- Holonym: amérindien
- Meronyms: hopi, zuñi
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Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin populum, singular accusative of populus (“people, nation”).
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Noun edit
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 edit
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pueblo
Papiamentu edit
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pueblo
Spanish edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”).
Noun edit
pueblo m (plural pueblos)
- town, village
- the common people, the working classes
- Synonym: clase obrera
- population, people
- Synonym: población
- nation
- Synonym: nación
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Verb edit
pueblo
Further reading edit
- “pueblo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014