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  2. Umbrella - Wikipedia

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    Parts of an umbrella [2]. The word parasol is a combination of the Latin parare, and sol, meaning 'sun'. [3] Parapluie (French) similarly consists of para combined with pluie, which means 'rain' (which in turn derives from pluvia, the Latin word for rain); the usage of this word was prevalent in the nineteenth century.

  3. Hti - Wikipedia

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    Hti (Burmese: ထီး; MLCTS: hti:, IPA:; Mon: ဍိုၚ်; Shan: ထီး), a Burmese language word meaning umbrella, is the name of the finial ornament that tops almost all Burmese pagodas. [1] The chatra umbrella or parasol is an auspicious symbol in Buddhism and Hinduism.

  4. Mock language - Wikipedia

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    Mock Spanish is the most common form of mock language in the southwestern United States, where Hill first researched the phenomenon. [1] The term "Mock" has since been applied to other languages, and the umbrella term "Mock language" developed.

  5. Latino (demonym) - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, the term Latino is a loan word from American Spanish. [12] [13] (Oxford Dictionaries attributes the origin to Latin-American Spanish. [14]) Its origin is generally given as a shortening of latinoamericano, Spanish for 'Latin American'. [15] The Oxford English Dictionary traces its usage to 1946. [12]

  6. Hispanicisms in English - Wikipedia

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    Many geographic place names in the United States have Spanish origins as a legacy of the time when these regions were under Spanish or Mexican control, or as indicators that Hispanic explorers passed that way. Pei notes, for example that three dangerous rocks on the Alaskan coast bear the names Abreojo, Alárgate, and Quita Sueño. [1]

  7. Diccionario de la lengua española - Wikipedia

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    The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy , with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language .

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  9. Reverso (language tools) - Wikipedia

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    Reverso is a French company specialized in AI-based language tools, translation aids, and language services. [2] These include online translation based on neural machine translation (NMT), contextual dictionaries, online bilingual concordances, grammar and spell checking and conjugation tools.