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Barataria, a fictional ínsula ("isle") awarded by some noblemen to Sancho Panza as a prank in Part II of Cervantes' Don Quixote (from the Spanish word barato, meaning cheap) Barataria, a fictional republican kingdom in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers
From the Italian "Paesano", meaning a Venezuelan or Italian (or southern European). It is used to describe, in a friendly way, those who are originally from the same world region or country. For instance, a Venezuelan Middle-Eastern can refer to another Middle-Eastern as a "paisano." Panetón = n. From "panettone", meaning an Italian Christmas ...
A common expression in Spain is anything to the effect of hace lo que le sale de los cojones ("does whatever comes out of their balls"), meaning "does whatever the fuck they want". Variations are sale de los huevos , sale de las pelotas , etc.
Naco (fem. naca) is a pejorative word often used in Mexican Spanish that may be translated into English as "low-class", "uncultured", "vulgar" or "uncivilized ". [1] A naco (Spanish: ⓘ) is usually associated with lower socio-economic classes. Although, it is used across all socioeconomic classes, when associated with middle - upper income ...
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
Barata (Portuguese pronunciation:, meaning cockroach), is a Portuguese surname. Ahmed Hassan Barata, Nigerian politician; Cipriano Barata (1762–1838), Brazilian physician and politician; Jaime Martins Barata (1899–1970), Portuguese painter and scholar; José Barata-Moura (born 1948), Portuguese philosopher
As early as 1820, Miguel Cabrera identified many of the jíbaros' ideas and characteristics in his set of poems known as The Jibaro's Verses.Then, some 80 years later, in his 1898 book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The native people, as a whole, may be divided into four classes ...
La chingada is a term commonly used in colloquial, even crass, Mexican Spanish that refers to various conditions or situations of, generally, negative connotations. The word is derived from the verb chingar, "to fuck".