单词 | hispanic |
释义 | Hispanicadj.n. A. adj. 1. Pertaining to Spain or its people; esp. pertaining to ancient Spain. 2. Spanish-speaking, esp. applied to someone of Latin-American descent living in the United States. ΚΠ 1974 Econ. & Social Statistics for Spanish-Speaking Americans (U.S. Congress. House Comm. Post Office & Civil Service) 166 For statistical or policy purposes Hispanic Americans do not presently exist in most agencies of the government. 1980 Times 29 Oct. 8 Hispanic children in Los Angeles are taught entirely in Spanish. 1986 Washington Post 6 Dec. a21 ‘Hispanic’ means ‘Spanish-speaking’, nothing else. B. n. A Spanish-speaking person, esp. one of Latin-American descent, living in the U.S. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin American1648 African1700 High Dutch1773 Low Dutch1773 German-American1775 African American1782 Anglo-American1785 Irish-American1786 Africo-American1788 American African1826 Pennsylvania German1827 Pennsylvania Dutch1831 Afro-American1833 far-downer1834 Mexicano1847 knickerbocker1848 Chinese-American1854 Italian–American1873 Polish-American1876 Polacker1883 roundhead1895 hunk1896 Polack1898 Senegambian1900 bohunk1903 honky1904 hunyak1911 Turk1914 boho1920 Anglo1923 Euro-American1925 turkey1932 narrowback1933 nisei1934 roundheader1934 pachuco1943 pocho1944 Latino1946 Chicano1947 Mexican-American1948 Asian American1952 Amerasian1957 Chicana1966 Afrikan1972 Hispanic1972 1972 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Sept. vi. 68/3 The fictional melting pot has become a pousse-café in which every layer is jealous of, or hostile to, every other layer; in a fever of ethnicism, Italians, Jews, Orientals, Blacks, Hispanics and others have withdrawn into themselves. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 7 Aug. 1/2 The 1970 census found more Hispanics in New Jersey than in Arizona, more in Illinois than in New Mexico. Chicago has a quarter of a million Latinos, and Detroit has a barrio comprising almost 20 Spanish-speaking nationalities. 1979 Times 4 Dec. 6/7 How do we justify the United States..[saying] to Hispanics who are here legally that they have to wait nine years to bring their children to this country? 1984 Miami Herald 6 Apr. 7 a/1 Spokesmen for Hispanics are seeking separate hearings on an alternative bill introduced by Rep. Edward Roybal, D-Calif. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Spaniards > [adjective] Spanishc1275 Spain1494 Spaniolated1583 Hispanical1584 Spanified1599 Spaniolized1600 Spaniolizing1627 Spanishy1922 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. vii. 49 Confession compulsorie; as by Hispanicall inquisition. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 19 In this Hispanicall proverbe. Hiˈspanically adv. in the Spanish manner. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Iberian peninsula and islands > [adverb] > Spain Hispanically1831 1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 613 A gentleman so Hispanically cognominated. Hispanicism n. /hɪˈspænɪsɪz(ə)m/ a Spanish idiom or mode of expression. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Spanish > idiom of Hispanicism1836 Hispanism1949 1836 T. B. Macaulay Sir William Temple in Ess. (1887) 460 A style..superficially deformed, indeed, by Gallicisms and Hispanicisms. 1889 Sat. Rev. 12 Jan. 27/2 The Hispanicisms and generally uncultivated character of the style. Hiˈspanicize v. (transitive) to render Spanish. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Spaniards > [verb (transitive)] Hispaniolize1583 Hispanize1602 Spanishify1612 Espanolize1630 Hispaniolate1860 Spaniardize1872 Hispanicize1878 1878 H. A. Webster in Encycl. Brit. VI. 155/2 Others [tribes] have been in large measure Hispanicized both in language and in habits. ˈHispanism n. = Hispanicism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Spanish > idiom of Hispanicism1836 Hispanism1949 1949 S. de Madariaga Christopher Columbus (ed. 2) 410 When he makes errors in Latin they are Hispanisms. 1964 Y. Malkiel in Archivum Linguisticum XVI. 3 Differently developed Hispanisms in Arabic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1584 |
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