merideño

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish Mérida

Proto-Indo-European *-nósder.

Latin -ēnus

Spanish -eño

Spanish merideño

From Mérida + -eño.

Adjective

merideño (feminine merideña, masculine plural merideños, feminine plural merideñas)

1. of, from or relating to Mérida, Venezuela

Noun

merideño m (plural merideños, feminine merideña, feminine plural merideñas)

1. native or inhabitant of Mérida, Venezuela (usually male)

Further reading

• “merideño”, 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