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Monterey County, California (from Monterey Bay—the name is composed of the Spanish words Monte ("Hill") and Rey ("King") in spanish Monterrey, historically because the viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) that supported the expedition of California, was from Monterrey, Galicia, Spain) Mora County, New Mexico (Blackberry or Moor woman)
The name of California and its ruler Queen Calafia originate in Las Sergas de Esplandián, a 1510 Spanish chivalric epic written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.. The name of California has its origin in the Spanish epic Las sergas de Esplandián ("The Adventures of Esplandián"), written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. [17]
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[1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely the same in English and Spanish: They have the same spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word dividers, etc. It excludes proper nouns and words that have different diacritics (e.g., invasion/invasión, pâté ...
calé — a Romani person; from Caló ' Romani, speaker of Romani ', see caló below. caló — Caló language, also black, dark-colored; the word is possibly related to Sanskrit kanlanka ' blemish, macula ' and/or Ancient Greek kelainós ' black '.
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).
This is a list of Spanish words of Italian origin. It is further divided into words that come from contemporary Italian and from colloquial Italian in Spanish.Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words borrowed from a different language.
Documented Nahuatl words in the Spanish language (mostly as spoken in Mexico and Mesoamerica), also called Nahuatlismos include an extensive list of words that represent (i) animals, (ii) plants, fruit and vegetables, (iii) foods and beverages, and (iv) domestic appliances. Many of these words end with the absolutive suffix "-tl" in Nahuatl.