Spanish Loanwords | P

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Letter P: Displaying 121 - 135 of 135

provincial.

Orthographic Variants: 
brobiçial, propincial, Pruvicial, Prouinçial, proficial

head of province, church official (a loanword from Spanish)

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provisión real.

a very special order, beginning with the king's name
(a loanword from Spanish)

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provisión.

Orthographic Variants: 
probicio, prouision, probiçio

provision; a governmental pronouncement
(a loanword from Spanish)

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provisor.

Orthographic Variants: 
prouisor, probisor, frovisol, probisol

provisor, judge or inspector, often of part of the church and nominated by a bishop (RAE); referred to a Spanish official in New Spain
(a loanword from Spanish)

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psalmo.

psalm

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 40.

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psalterio.

psaltery, songbook

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pueblo.

Orthographic Variants: 
poueblo, poveblo

town, community; literally, a "people" or ethnic group
(a loanword from Spanish)

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puente.

Orthographic Variants: 
pohuete, puentte, buhuete, puete

a bridge
(a loanword from Spanish)

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puerta.

Orthographic Variants: 
poerta, puelta, pouerta

door

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Puga.

Orthographic Variants: 
Poga

a Spanish surname; the name of a Doctor (and judge of the high court) in sixteenth-century New Spain (Vasco de Puga, Oydor)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pulpito.

Orthographic Variants: 
bulpito

pulpit
(a loanword from Spanish)

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punto.

a point; can have a musical referent

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purgatorio.

Orthographic Variants: 
forcadorio, porcatorio, porgatorio

purgatory

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Purificación.

Orthographic Variants: 
forificacion

Purification (a religious term)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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puto.

a homosexual male
(a loanword from Spanish)

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