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a combining form representing Spain or Spanish in compound words: Hispano-American.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

<Latin Hispān(us) pertaining to Hispānia the Iberian Peninsula + -o-

No Hispano-moresque swords exist of earlier date than the fifteenth century, and these have richly-worked hilts in the Arab taste.
Armour in England|J. Starkie Gardner
Altars are gaudily decorated and statues bejeweled and be (artificial) flowered in Hispano-Italian fashion.
Riviera Towns|Herbert Adams Gibbons
It was readily adapted for the use of the Hispano-Suiza 150-horsepower engine.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
Nevertheless, the feeling of a common Hispano-American brotherhood is weak.
South America Observations and Impressions|James Bryce

All the exuberant life garnered by Hispano-Arab culture lives in the Spanish buildings.
Things seen in Spain|C. Gasquoine Hartley