# Spanish
## English

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### Etymology

From Middle English Spainish, Spanish, equivalent to Spain +‎ -ish.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: spăn'ĭsh, IPA: /ˈspæn.ɪʃ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænɪʃ

### Adjective

Spanish (not comparable)
* Of or pertaining to Spain.
    Spanish borders
** 2005, J. P. Sullivan, Martial, the unexpected classic, page 1:Whether Martial's heart was in the Spanish highlands or whether he was happy enough in Rome will be discussed later […]
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Spanish.
* Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.
    Hypernym: European
    Spanish cuisines
** 1996, Oscar Zeta Acosta, “From Whence I Came”, in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta: the uncollected works, page 42:Though she was Indian like the rest of us, she had a fine Spanish nose.
** 2007, Lynette Rohrer Shirk, chapter 1, in The Everything Tapas and Small Plates Cookbook:Spanish cuisine is not as spicy hot as Mexican, but it is flavorful and bright.
* Of or pertaining to the Spanish language.
    Hypernym: Indo-European
    Spanish verbs
** 1918, Julián Moreno-Lacalle, Elements of Spanish Pronunciation, page 12:Fundamentally, the Spanish vowel sounds are only five, even though as a matter of fact there may be different other sounds for such vowels as [a], [e] and [o].
* (US, Canada, informal, nonstandard) Of or pertaining to Hispanic people or their culture.

#### Derived terms

* Ibero-Spanish
* Sables-Spanish Rivers
* Second Spanish Republic
* Spanglish
* spanish
* Spanish America
* Spanish American
* Spanish-American War
* Spanish Armada
* Spanish athlete
* Spanish bayonet
* Spanish black
* Spanish boot
* Spanish brown
* Spanish buckeye
* Spanish burton
* Spanish chalk
* Spanish cherry
* Spanish chestnut
* Spanish cress
* Spanish cubit
* Spanish dagger
* Spanish dancer
* Spanish dancing
* Spanish donkey
* Spanish elm
* Spanish Empire
* Spanish fever
* Spanish Filipino
* Spanish fir
* Spanish flag
* Spanish flu
* Spanish Flu
* Spanish fly
* Spanish fox
* Spanish fury
* Spanish Game
* Spanish grass
* Spanish green
* Spanish Guinea
* Spanish ham
* Spanish handkerchief
* Spanish ibex
* Spanish influenza
* Spanish Influenza
* Spanish Inquisition
* Spanish iris
* Spanishise
* Spanishize
* Spanish jasmine
* Spanish juice
* Spanish lace
* Spanish Lake
* Spanish lime
* Spanish line
* Spanishly
* Spanish lynx
* Spanish mackerel
* Spanish Main
* Spanish Mastiff
* Spanish mestiza
* Spanish moss
* Spanish nectarine
* Spanish needles
* Spanish Netherlands
* Spanish omelet
* Spanish omelette
* Spanish onion
* Spanish Opening
* Spanish oregano
* Spanish Peaks
* Spanish pepper
* Spanish plume
* Spanish potato
* Spanish practices
* Spanish prisoner
* Spanish red
* Spanish reef
* Spanish rice
* Spanish Road
* Spanish Sahara
* Spanish sausage
* Spanish shame
* Spanish sheep
* Spanish Sign Language
* Spanish soap
* Spanish solution
* Spanish-speaking
* Spanish Springs
* Spanish studies
* Spanish Torture
* Spanish Town
* Spanish Virgin Islands
* Spanish walk
* Spanish wall
* Spanish Water Dog
* Spanish West Indies
* Spanish white
* Spanish windlass
* Spanish Yiddish
* swamp Spanish oak
* walk Spanish
* white Spanish broom

#### Translations
### Proper noun

Spanish (countable and uncountable, plural Spanishes)
* (uncountable) A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas.
    Synonym: Castilian
** 1873, Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, page 163:"If he speaks Spanish, my daughter can converse with him ; she has but shortly arrived from Spain."
** 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:“You should read Spanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood.”
** 1928, Otto Jespersen, An International Language, page 48:Therefore in Novial, as well as in Esp-Ido, we simplify the spelling in all words containing double letters in the national languages, from which the words are taken: pasa (E pass, F passer), efekte, komun (F commun, E common), etc. In this we follow the beautiful example of Spanish, which writes pasar, efecto, común, etc., and even extend it to cases in which Spanish makes a distinction in sound and spelling, as with ll and rr: bel S bello, F belle, koresponda, S corresponder, etc.
** 1995, Hanna Pishwa, Karl Maroldt, editors, The Development of Morphological Systematicity, page 146:In contrast with the creole languages discussed above, the article systems of Rumanian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese are more complex, since neutralization fails to occur to a large extent.
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:Spanish.
* A town in Ontario, Canada.

#### Derived terms

* English or Spanish
* Old Spanish

#### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Spanish terms
* Appendix:Spanish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Spanish

### Noun

Spanish (countable and uncountable, plural Spanish or Spanishes)
* (collective plural) People of Spain, collectively.
** 1976, Robert Rézette, The Spanish Enclaves in Morocco, page 62:The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets.
* (uncountable) Spanish cuisine; traditional Spanish food.
* (US, informal, nonstandard, collective in the plural) People of Hispanic origin; one whose first language is Spanish.
** 1970, Henry Sioux Johnson, William J. Hernández-Martinez, Educating the Mexican American, page 87:Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos).

#### Synonyms

* (people of Spain): Spaniards
* (people of Hispanic origin): Hispanics

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* ISO 639-1 code es, ISO 639-3 code spa (SIL)
* Ethnologue entry for Spanish, spa ⁠

### Anagrams

* phasins