pueblo

See also: Pueblo

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpwɛbləʊ/

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.

Translations

community of Pueblo Indians

• Greek: χωριό Ερυθρόδερμων n (chorió Erythródermon)

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. / gétes a ento vientre. &. ij. pu / eblos de tus entránas. ý 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 q es en egip / to.

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

   • Idem, 13r. b.

     E dixieró / a pharaon eſto diz el sénor. Dios / de iſrl´ 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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, nation

   Synonym: nación

Derived terms

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

 

Related terms

• población
• poblar

 

Descendants

• Papiamentu: pueblo
• → English: pueblo

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