español m sg (feminine singularespañola,neuter singularespañol,masculine pluralespañoles,feminine pluralespañoles)
español m sg (feminine singularespañola,masculine pluralespañoles,feminine pluralespañoles)
español m (uncountable)
Inherited fromOld Galician-Portugueseespanhol. ComparePortugueseespanhol andSpanishespañol.
español (feminineespañola,masculine pluralespañois,feminine pluralespañolas)
español m (pluralespañois,feminineespañola,feminine pluralespañolas)
Inherited fromOld Spanishespanyol,espanhol,espannol. Probably a thirteenth-century borrowing fromOld Occitanespaignol (compare modernOccitanespanhòl,Catalanespanyol,Portugueseespanhol,Frenchespagnol), fromVulgar Latin*Hispaniolus(“of Spain”),[1] fromLatinHispānus, back-formed fromHispānia, assumed in comparison toHebrewשָׁפָן(šap̄ā́n) to reflectPunic*𐤀𐤉𐤔𐤐𐤍(*ʾyšpn/*ʔī šap̄ān/, literally“coast of hyraxes”).
According to phonetic rules, if inherited from Latin, the Castilian Spanish result would have been *españuelo (though some argue that this did not take root because the suffix-uelo would be perceived as diminutive; more likely, it was simply because there was no need at the time for a common secular name for all the inhabitants of Christian Iberia/Spain, and a common identity as a unified people or entity had not yet been formed. Until then, the people usedcristiano(“Christian”) to refer to themselves). The wordespañol was supposedly imported from Provence by a medieval chronicler (it was originally introduced by pilgrims in Santiago) because there was no existing translation of the earlier Roman wordHispani when writing a chronicle of Spanish history, but this was the word Provençal speakers used to refer to the Christian kingdoms of what would later become Spain.[2] In Old Spanish there was also a formespañón which disappeared after the first half of the 14th century, possibly derived from a Vulgar Latin*Hispaniōnem.[3] Compare alsoespanesco, the word Mozarabic speakers used for themselves, presumably from aVulgar Latin*Hispaniscus.[4]
español (feminineespañola,masculine pluralespañoles,feminine pluralespañolas)
español m (pluralespañoles,feminineespañola,feminine pluralespañolas)
español m (uncountable)
Seecastellano.
