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Boca Raton, Florida, a census-designated place near Boca Raton in Palm Beach County (from Boca Ratón: derives from the Spanish word boca [mouth], which was often used to describe an inlet/mouth of a river, while ratón (literally mouse) was used by Spanish sailors to describe rocks that gnawed at a ship's cable, or mouse was a term for a ...
This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas.It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).
A place name is tautological if two differently sounding parts of it are synonymous. This often occurs when a name from one language is imported into another and a standard descriptor is added on from the second language. Thus, for example, New Zealand's Mount Maunganui is tautological since "maunganui" is Māori for "great mountain". The ...
This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words
Named in 1821, one of several Spanish names given by General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lt. Governor of Upper Canada (1818-28) and Lt. Governor of Nova Scotia (1828-34). He developed a fondness for Spanish during the Peninsula Campaign and gave Spanish names to several Canadian places. See also Mariposa, Orillia, Oro, Sombra, and Zorra.
Spanish borrowed many words from other European languages: its close neighbors such as Catalan or Portuguese, other Romance languages such as Italian and French (this particularly during the Neoclassicist to Napoleonic periods, when French language and culture became the fashion at the royal court), and Germanic languages like English. For example:
Abra. abra, Spanish: abra, lit. 'gap; opening'.Originally the area called in Spanish: El Abra de Vigan, lit. 'The Gap/Opening of Vigan', [1] only referred to the narrow but conspicuous gap along the Malayan (Ilocos) mountain range [2] through which the Tineg River has cut an exit.
The Albayzín district contains examples of the Moorish vernacular architecture and was added to the listing in 1994. [12] Burgos Cathedral: Burgos: Castile and León: 316; 1984; ii, iv, vi: 13th to 16th centuries: The Gothic-style cathedral was constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries. It is the burial place of Spanish national hero, El ...