basquetbolista
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
From básquetbol + -ista.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]basquetbolista m or f by sense (plural basquetbolistas)
- (Latin America, Philippines, US) basketball player, basketballer
- Synonym: baloncestista
- 2016 July 29, “Greivis Vásquez faltará a Río”, in El Nacional[1]:
- El basquetbolista de 29 años anunció este viernes a través de un comunicado que los Nets de Brooklyn no le otorgaron el permiso para participar en Río 2016.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- → Cebuano: basketbolista
- → Tagalog: basketbolista
Further reading
[edit]- “basquetbolista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Categories:
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ista
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (blow)
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ista
- Rhymes:Spanish/ista/5 syllables
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- es:Athletes
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