pueblo

See also: Pueblo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus. Doublet of people.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpwɛbləʊ/

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Noun

pueblo (plural pueblos)

1. A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 17:

     ‘And their flats and houses?’ Jane pointed to a custer of executive villas in the pueblo style.

Derived terms

• Grasshopper Pueblo
• Santo Domingo Pueblo
• Taos Pueblo
• Zuni Pueblo

 

Translations

community of Pueblo Indians

• Greek: χωριό Ερυθρόδερμων n (chorió Erythródermon)

French

Etymology

From Spanish pueblo. Doublet of people and peuple.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwe.blo/

Adjective

pueblo (invariable)

1. Pueblo

   Holonym: amérindien

   Meronyms: hopi, zuñi

Related terms

• Pueblo

See also

• anasazi

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin populum, singular accusative of populus (“people, nation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpweblo/

Noun

pueblo m (plural pueblos)

1. people, nation
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a.

     & dixo aella .ij. / gẽtes a ento vientre. & .ij. pu / eblos de tus entrãnas. ẏ ſtran.

     And he said to her: "two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated."

   • Idem, f. 12r. b.

     E dixo dios cate & ui. afflicci- / on de myo pueblo q̃ es en egip / to.

     And God said: "I have noticed and seen the affliction of my people in Egypt."

   • Idem, 13r. b.

     E dixierõ / a pharaon eſto diz el sẽnor. Dios / de iſrꝉ dexa mio pueblo. e ſeruir / me a en el deſerto.

     And they said to pharaoh: "this is what the Lord, God of Israel, says: 'let my people go and they shall serve me in the desert'."

Related terms

• poblar

Descendants

• Ladino: puevlo
• Spanish: pueblo
  • Papiamentu: pueblo
  • → English: pueblo

Ometepec Nahuatl

Noun

pueblo

1. town

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pueblo.

Noun

pueblo

1. village
2. people, nation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpweblo/ [ˈpwe.β̞lo]
• Rhymes: -eblo
• Syllabification: pue‧blo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”).

Noun

pueblo m (plural pueblos)

1. town, village

   Synonym: aldea

   Coordinate term: ciudad

2. the common people, the working classes

   Synonym: clase obrera

3. population, people

   Synonym: población

4. nation

   Synonym: nación

Derived terms

• pasarse siete pueblos
• pasarse tres pueblos
• pueblecito
• pueblerino
• pueblo fantasma
• pueblo llano
• ser más de pueblo que las amapolas

 

Related terms

• población
• poblar

 

Descendants

• Papiamentu: pueblo
• → English: pueblo

Etymology 2

Verb

pueblo

1. first-person singular present indicative of poblar

Further reading

• “pueblo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014