pueblo

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpwɛ.bləʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpwɛ.bloʊ/

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• Hyphenation: pue‧blo

pueblo (plural pueblos)

1. 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^[sic] 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.

From Spanish pueblo. Doublet of people and peuple.

• IPA^(key): /pwe.blo/

pueblo (invariable)

1. Pueblo

   Holonym: amérindien

   Meronyms: hopi, zuñi

• Pueblo

• anasazi

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu͡eblo/

pueblo m (plural pueblos)

1. 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.

     [E dixo a ella “dúas gentes ha en to vientre, e dos pueblos de tus entrannas ý estrán.”]

     And he said to her: "two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated."

   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r. b.:

     E dixo dios cate & ui. afflicci- / on de myo pueblo q̃ es en egip / to.

     [E dixo Dios “caté e vi affliccion de mío pueblo que es en Egipto.”]

     And God said: "I have noticed and seen the affliction of my people in Egypt."

   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 13r. b.:

     E dixierõ / a pharaon eſto diz el sẽnor. Dios / de iſrꝉ dexa mio pueblo. e ſeruir / me a en el deſerto.

     [E dixieron a Pharaon “esto diz el Sennor Dios de Israel: Dexa mío pueblo e servir-me-á en el desierto.”]

     And they said to the Pharaoh: "this is what the Lord, God of Israel, says: 'let my people go and they shall serve me in the desert'."

• poblar

• Ladino: puevlo
• Spanish: pueblo, puebo (dialectal)
  • Papiamentu: pueblo
  • → English: pueblo

pueblo

1. town

From Spanish pueblo.

pueblo

1. village
2. people, nation

• puebo (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpweblo/ [ˈpwe.β̞lo]
• Rhymes: -eblo
• Syllabification: pue‧blo

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

pueblo m (plural pueblos)

1. town, village

   Synonym: aldea

   Coordinate term: ciudad

   • 2015 July 23, Diana Aller, “Queremos más calles y plazas como la de Pedro Zerolo”, in El País‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 December 2019:

     Para la calle de Calvo Sotelo, un ultraderechista consumado, propondríamos el nombre de algo diametralmente diferente, algo que evoque la participación, la espontaneidad y la voz del pueblo.

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2. the common people, the working classes

   Synonym: clase obrera

3. population, people

   Synonym: población

4. nation

   Synonym: nación

• Papiamentu: pueblo
• → English: pueblo

pueblo

1. first-person singular present indicative of poblar

• “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], 10 December 2024