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According to the Occitan scenario, advanced by Rafael Lapesa, [4] the Spanish borrowed the Occitan name for themselves, which was the name España plus the diminutive suffix -ol, from the Latin-olus. The Occitan influence is inferred because in Castilian the same Latin suffix would have produced * españuelo rather than español .
The first records of the term Latinx appear in the 21st century, [16] but there is no certainty as to its first occurrence. [21] According to Google Trends, it was first seen online in 2004, [9] [22] [23] and first appeared in academic literature around 2013 "in a Puerto Rican psychological periodical to challenge the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language."
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
In the English language, the term Latino is a loan word from American Spanish. [7] [8] (Oxford Dictionaries attributes the origin to Latin-American Spanish. [9]) Its origin is generally given as a shortening of latinoamericano, Spanish for 'Latin American'. [10] The Oxford English Dictionary traces its usage to 1946. [7]
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck.
The term negro means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese (from Latin niger), where English took it from. [1] The term can be viewed as offensive , inoffensive, or completely neutral, largely depending on the region or country where it is used, as well as the time period and context in which it is applied.
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