Madrileño

[mad-ruh-leyn-yoh, mah-three-le-nyaw]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

plural

Madrilenos 

1. a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Madrileño¹

First recorded in 1825–35; from Spanish madrileño, perhaps by dissimilation ( d—d becoming d—l ) from unrecorded madrideño, equivalent to Madrid Madrid + -eño a Spanish suffix forming nouns and adjectives from placenames (from Latin -ignus, -egnus, apparently extracted from adjectives formed with -n- in which g was part of the root, e.g., larignus “of larch,” salignus “of willow”)