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  2. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    from Spanish or Portuguese banana, probably from a Wolof word, [4] or from Arabic بأننا “ba’ nana” fingers [5] bandolier from Spanish bandolero, meaning "band (for a weapon or other) that crosses from one shoulder to the opposite hip" and bandolero, loosely meaning "he who wears a bandolier" barbeque

  4. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Manflor (combination of the English loanword "man" and the word flor meaning "flower") and its variant manflora (a play on manflor using the word flora) are used in Mexico and in the US to refer, usually pejoratively, to a lesbian. (In Eastern Guatemala, the variation mamplor is used.) It is used in very much the same way as the English word ...

  5. Category:Lists of Spanish words of foreign origin - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Lists of Spanish words of foreign origin" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... List of EnglishSpanish interlingual ...

  6. Name of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    The term continues evolving as other languages adapt these words to form their own name for Spain—for example, Japanese スペイン語 (Supein-go), 'Spanish language', and スペイン人 (Supein-jin), 'Spaniard', derive from the Japanese word for Spain, スペイン (Supein), which, in turn, derives from English Spain.

  7. Category:Spanish words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words

  8. Longest word in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Both words are abbreviated as ECOM. [4] The 24-letter word electroencefalografistas, plural of electroencefalografista, means 'electroencephalographists' or 'electroencephalographers': specialists in the brain measurement technology of electroencephalography (EEG). [3] [6] The 23-letter adverb anticonstitucionalmente means 'anticonstitutionally ...

  9. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    To determine which words are the most common, researchers create a database of all the words found in the corpus, and categorise them based on the context in which they are used. 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