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  2. Romance copula - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish copulas are ser and estar.The latter developed as follows: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed from two Latin verbs. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination: most of it derives from svm (to be) but the present subjunctive appears to come from sedeo (to sit) via the Old Spanish verb seer.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Dulce (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Dulce is a feminine given name.. Dulce, the Spanish form of Dulcie, has been ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States since 1990. [1] The variant Dulce Maria has been among the top 100 names for girls in Mexico since 2020.

  5. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Regardless of whether or not such condition or irreversible, the verb estar is always used, as opposed to ser. Another Spanish construction with similar rationale is atontado, derived from tonto ("silly"). A noun form of the word is gilipollez, meaning "stupidity" or "nonsense."

  6. Dulcita Lieggi - Wikipedia

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    Dulcita Lynn Lieggi Francisco (born 19 May 1989, in Santo Domingo) is a Dominican actress, model and beauty pageant title-holder. Ms. Ms. Lieggi was originally placed first runner-up to Carola Durán at Miss Dominican Republic 2012 , but later Durán was dethroned and the title was given to Lieggi.

  7. Dulcie - Wikipedia

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    Dulcie is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin dulcis, meaning sweet.It has been in use in the Anglosphere since the 1800s. It was a recreation in a new form of Duce, [1] Douce, or Dowse, an older English name in use since the Middle Ages that was derived from the same Latin source word.

  8. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Occitano-Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    In this case ser and estar can't be used indistinctly without altering the meaning) The conjugation of the Aragonese and Occitan forms come close to the conjugation of ser in Catalan, and this sets the three languages apart from the Ibero-Romance languages with the kind of uses that the verb "to be" has. For example with the sentence "We are ...