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  • Hispanicism
    Hispanicism
    noun
    an idiom peculiar to Spanish.
  • hispanicism
    hispanicism
    noun
    a word or expression borrowed from Spanish or modelled on the form of a Spanish word or expression

Hispanicism

American  
[hi-span-uh-siz-uhm] / hɪˈspæn əˌsɪz əm /

noun

  1. an idiom peculiar to Spanish.


hispanicism British  
/ hɪˈspænɪˌsɪzəm /

noun

  1. a word or expression borrowed from Spanish or modelled on the form of a Spanish word or expression

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Etymology

Origin of Hispanicism

First recorded in 1830–40; Hispanic + -ism

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