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Because Spanish is a Romance language (which means it evolved from Latin), many of its words are either inherited from Latin or derive from Latin words. Although English is a Germanic language, it, too, incorporates thousands of Latinate words that are related to words in Spanish. [3]
Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]
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The first table lists the 100 most common word forms from the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA), a text corpus compiled by the Real Academia Española (RAE). The RAE is Spain's official institution for documenting, planning, and standardising the Spanish language. A word form is any of the grammatical variations of a word.
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Color terms that are also the name of an object characteristically having that color are suspect, for example, gold, silver and ash; Recent foreign loan words may be suspect; In cases where lexemic status is difficult to assess, morphological complexity is given some weight as a secondary criterion (for example, red-orange might be questionable)
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The origin of the word olé is uncertain. A popular idea is that the word comes from Allāh, [2] [3] the Arabic word for God, perhaps as wa Ilâh (by God), or yāllāh (O God), [4] which became Hispanicized into olé meaning "bravo!" and used to express an appreciation of an outstanding performance in Spanish. [2]