# pueblo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus. Doublet of people.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpwɛ.bləʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈpwɛ.bloʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: pue‧blo

### Noun

pueblo (plural pueblos)
* A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. [from 19th c.]
** 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 290:The Spaniards took over whole pueblos, and the indians were taxed, enslaved, and tortured.
** 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 17:‘And their flats and houses?’ Jane pointed to a custer of executive villas in the pueblo style.

#### Derived terms

* Grasshopper Pueblo
* Santo Domingo Pueblo
* Taos Pueblo
* Zuni Pueblo

#### Translations
## French
### Etymology

From Spanish pueblo. Doublet of people and peuple.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pwe.blo/

### Adjective

pueblo (invariable)
* Pueblo
    Holonym: amérindien
    Meronyms: hopi, zuñi

#### Related terms

* Pueblo

#### See also

* anasazi

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin populum, singular accusative of populus (“people, nation”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu͡eblo/

### Noun

pueblo m (plural pueblos)
* people, nation
** c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a:& dixo aella .ij. / gẽtes a ento vientre. & .ij. pu / eblos de tus entrãnas. ẏ ſtran.And he said to her: "two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated."
** Idem, f. 12r. b.
    E dixo dios cate & ui. afflicci- / on de myo pueblo q̃ es en egip / to.And God said: "I have noticed and seen the affliction of my people in Egypt."
** Idem, 13r. b.
    E dixierõ / a pharaon eſto diz el sẽnor. Dios / de iſrꝉ dexa mio pueblo. e ſeruir / me a en el deſerto.And they said to pharaoh: "this is what the Lord, God of Israel, says: 'let my people go and they shall serve me in the desert'."

#### Related terms

* poblar

#### Descendants

* Ladino: puevlo
* Spanish: pueblo
** Papiamentu: pueblo
** → English: pueblo

## Ometepec Nahuatl
### Noun

pueblo
* town

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish pueblo.

### Noun

pueblo
* village
* people, nation

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpweblo/ [ˈpwe.β̞lo]
* Rhymes: -eblo
* Syllabification: pue‧blo

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”).

#### Noun

pueblo m (plural pueblos)
* town, village
    Synonym: aldea
    Coordinate term: ciudad
* the common people, the working classes
    Synonym: clase obrera
* population, people
    Synonym: población
* nation
    Synonym: nación

##### Derived terms

* pasarse siete pueblos
* pasarse tres pueblos
* pueblecito
* pueblerino
* pueblo fantasma
* pueblo llano
* ser más de pueblo que las amapolas

##### Related terms

* población
* poblar

##### Descendants

* Papiamentu: pueblo
* → English: pueblo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pueblo
* first-person singular present indicative of poblar

### Further reading

* “pueblo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10