vocablo
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Learned borrowing from Latin vocābulum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vocablo m (plural vocablos)
- word, term
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael[1], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:
- Perico el bailarín, aunque brasilero, hablaba sin dificultad el idioma de los criollos, bien que comúnmente le hacía gracia expresarse en una jerga especial, mezclando en sus dichos y conversaciones vocablos portugueses.
- Despite being Brazilian, the dancer Perico spoke with ease the language of the creoles; however, he often entertained himself by employing a special jargon studded with Portuguese words in his sayings and conversations.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vocablo”, 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
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ablo
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