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"El Caudillo" in The Struggle for Freedom and Total Independence of His People. Also in Hispano-Asia (Philippines) Emilio Aguinaldo was invested by popular acclamation as the Caudillo of the "Philippine Revolutionary War", he is the leader of a national liberation against the Spanish Empire and an anti-imperialist resistance against the US.
The present Portuguese word dodô ("dodo") is of English origin. The Portuguese word doudo or doido may itself be a loanword from Old English (cp. English "dolt") [34] Embarrass from Portuguese embaraçar (same meaning; also to tangle – string or rope), from em + baraço (archaic for "rope") [35] Emu from ema (= "rhea") [36]
Note that Caudillo is equivalent to führer or duce; you may blame Spain's Franco for this fact, as he had the words Caudillo de España por la Gracia de Dios minted in all Spanish coins for four decades. 2. even if it is an anglo thing, this is Wikipedia in English, and the word Caudillo is indeed used with its connotations in English. 3.
from Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl xocolatl meaning "hot water" or from a combination of the Mayan word chocol meaning "hot" and the Nahuatl word atl meaning "water." Choctaw from the native name Chahta of unknown meaning but also said to come from Spanish chato (="flattened") because of the tribe's custom of flattening the heads of male ...
Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.
Borges's own father, Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam, was a lawyer and wrote the novel El caudillo in 1921. Borges Haslam was born in Entre Ríos of Spanish, Portuguese, and English descent, the son of Francisco Borges Lafinur, a colonel, and Frances Ann Haslam, an Englishwoman. Borges Haslam grew up speaking English at home.
Lotería (Spanish word meaning "lottery") is a traditional Mexican board game of chance, similar to bingo, but played with a deck of cards instead of numbered balls. Each card has an image of an everyday object, its name, and a number, although the number is usually ignored.
The word with that meaning is quite common in mid-medieval Arabic. Spelled "caraway" in English in the 1390s in a cookery book. The English word came from Arabic via medieval Romance languages. [18] [19] carob خرّوب kharrūb [xrːwb] (listen ⓘ), carob. Carob beans and carob pods were consumed in the Mediterranean area from ancient times ...