pueblo

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus. Doublet of people.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpwɛ.bləʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpwɛ.bloʊ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: pue‧blo

Noun

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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, 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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French

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Etymology

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From Spanish pueblo. Doublet of people and peuple.

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Adjective

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pueblo (invariable)

  1. Pueblo
    Holonym: amérindien
    Meronyms: hopi, zuñi
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Old Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin populum, singular accusative of populus (people, nation).

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Noun

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pueblo m (plural pueblos)

  1. 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'."
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Descendants

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  • Ladino: puevlo
  • Spanish: pueblo

Ometepec Nahuatl

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Noun

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pueblo

  1. town

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Spanish pueblo.

Noun

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pueblo

  1. village
  2. people, nation

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpweblo/ [ˈpwe.β̞lo]
  • Rhymes: -eblo
  • Syllabification: pue‧blo

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus (people, nation), from Proto-Italic *poplos (army).

Noun

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pueblo m (plural pueblos)

  1. town, village
    Synonym: aldea
    Coordinate term: ciudad
  2. the common people, the working classes
    Synonym: clase obrera
  3. population, people
    Synonym: población
  4. nation
    Synonym: nación
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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pueblo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of poblar

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