Pizarro

[pi-zahr-oh, pee-thahr-raw, -sahr-]

noun

1. Francisco c1470–1541, Spanish conqueror of Peru.

Pizarro

/ piˈθarrɔ, pɪˈzɑːrəʊ /

noun

1. Francisco (franˈθisko). ?1475–1541, Spanish conqueror of Peru. He landed in Peru (1532), murdered the Inca King Atahualpa (1533), and founded Lima as the new capital of Peru (1535). He was murdered by his own followers

Example Sentences

Landing in Peru in 1531, during the Inca Civil War, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro found the Inca Road an ideal conduit for seizing the empire and draining it of its treasure.

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Pedro Pizarro, chief executive of Edison International, the utility’s parent company, said in a press release Wednesday that the compensation program for victims was “designed to help them focus on their recovery.”

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“We will need to see the balance of an ultimate package,” Pizarro said.

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The cause is still under investigation, but Pizarro has said a leading theory is that an idle Edison transmission line, last used in 1971, somehow became reenergized and started the blaze.

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To this day, the murder of Pizarro has not been fully solved.

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