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See also: Pueblo

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:puebloWikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus. Doublet of people.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpwɛ.bləʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpwɛ.bloʊ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: pue‧blo

Noun

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pueblo (plural pueblos)

  1. A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. [from 19th c.]
    • 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 290:The Spaniards took over whole pueblos, and the indians[sic] were taxed, enslaved, and tortured.
    • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 17:‘And their flats and houses?’ Jane pointed to a custer of executive villas in the pueblo style.

Derived terms

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  • Grasshopper Pueblo
  • Jemez Pueblo
  • nonpueblo
  • prepueblo
  • puebloize
  • Santo Domingo Pueblo
  • Taos Pueblo
  • Zuni Pueblo

Translations

[edit] community of Pueblo Indians
  • Greek: χωριό Ερυθρόδερμων n (chorió Erythródermon)

French

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Etymology

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From Spanish pueblo. Doublet of people and peuple.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pwe.blo/

Adjective

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pueblo (invariable)

  1. Pueblo Holonym: amérindien Meronyms: hopi, zuñi
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  • Pueblo

See also

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  • anasazi

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin populum, singular accusative of populus (“people, nation”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpu͡eblo/

Noun

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pueblo m (plural pueblos)

  1. people, nation
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a:& dixo aella .ij. / gẽtes a ento vientre. & .ij. pu / eblos de tus entrãnas. ẏ ſtran.[E dixo a ella “dúas gentes ha en to vientre, e dos pueblos de tus entrannas ý estrán.”]And he said to her: "two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated."
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r. b.:E dixo dios cate & ui. afflicci- / on de myo pueblo q̃ es en egip / to.[E dixo Dios “caté e vi affliccion de mío pueblo que es en Egipto.”]And God said: "I have noticed and seen the affliction of my people in Egypt."
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 13r. b.:E dixierõ / a pharaon eſto diz el sẽnor. Dios / de iſrꝉ dexa mio pueblo. e ſeruir / me a en el deſerto.[E dixieron a Pharaon “esto diz el Sennor Dios de Israel: Dexa mío pueblo e servir-me-á en el desierto.”]And they said to the Pharaoh: "this is what the Lord, God of Israel, says: 'let my people go and they shall serve me in the desert'."
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  • poblar

Descendants

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  • Ladino: puevlo
  • Spanish: pueblo, puebo (dialectal)
    • Papiamentu: pueblo
    • → English: pueblo

Ometepec Nahuatl

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Noun

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pueblo

  1. town

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Spanish pueblo.

Noun

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pueblo

  1. village
  2. people, nation

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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  • puebo (dialectal)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpweblo/ [ˈpwe.β̞lo]
  • Rhymes: -eblo
  • Syllabification: pue‧blo

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish pueblo, from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”).

Noun

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pueblo m (plural pueblos)

  1. town, village Synonym: aldea Coordinate term: ciudad
    • 2015 July 23, Diana Aller, “Queremos más calles y plazas como la de Pedro Zerolo”, in El País‎[1], archived from the original on 18 December 2019:Para la calle de Calvo Sotelo, un ultraderechista consumado, propondríamos el nombre de algo diametralmente diferente, algo que evoque la participación, la espontaneidad y la voz del pueblo.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. the common people, the working classes Synonym: clase obrera
  3. population, people Synonym: población
  4. nation Synonym: nación
Derived terms
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  • pasarse siete pueblos
  • pasarse tres pueblos
  • pueblecito
  • pueblerino
  • pueblo fantasma
  • pueblo llano
  • ser más de pueblo que las amapolas
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  • población
  • poblar
Descendants
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  • Papiamentu: pueblo
  • → English: pueblo

Etymology 2

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Verb

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pueblo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of poblar

Further reading

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  • “pueblo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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