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  2. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...

  3. Interloper - Wikipedia

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    Interlopers , a 2001 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster; The Interlopers, a Matt Helm spy novel by Donald Hamilton "The Interlopers", a short story by Saki; Interloper, by Carbon Based Lifeforms

  4. Interloper (business) - Wikipedia

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    Interlopers are individuals or businesses who breach the monopoly of established guild, [1] livery company [2] or other body granted monopoly trading rights. [ 3 ] Interlopers in the English East India trade

  5. Buccaneer - Wikipedia

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    The legal status of buccaneers was still further obscured by the practice of the Spanish authorities, who regarded them as heretics and interlopers, and thus hanged or garroted captured buccaneers entirely without regard to whether their attacks were licensed by French or English monarchs. [citation needed]

  6. SpanishDict - Wikipedia

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    SpanishDict is a Spanish-American English reference, learning website, [1] and mobile application. [2] The website and mobile application feature a Spanish-American English dictionary and translator, verb conjugation tables, pronunciation videos, and language lessons. [3] SpanishDict is managed by Curiosity Media. [4]

  7. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  8. Lexicon - Wikipedia

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    The word lexicon derives from Greek word λεξικόν (lexikon), neuter of λεξικός (lexikos) meaning 'of or for words'. [ 1 ] Linguistic theories generally regard human languages as consisting of two parts: a lexicon, essentially a catalogue of a language's words (its wordstock); and a grammar , a system of rules which allow for the ...

  9. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    English short for the Spanish word latinoamericano, formed by latino "related to the Latin empire and language" and americano "from the Americas" llama via Spanish llama, from Quechua llama Llanos from Spanish llano "plain" < latin planus; vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela. loco