In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

The word " American " in English may to most English speakers refer exclusively to a person, place or object from the USA, but the word " americano " in Spanish would usually refer to anyone from the entire Americas, including Latin Americans, and Latin Americans speaking English might also use the word " American " in the same way.

The film was released on VHS in the same year by CIC Video, with a Spanish dubbed version separately released on VHS as Un cuento americano ( An American Tale, dropping the pun inherent in the English title ), and is now available on a DVD that contains the main English track, as well as dubbing for French and Spanish.

Madera is Spanish for " wood ", and there used to be a large U. S. company with large lumber mills, there is still a section of the city called " barrio americano " where some American-style wooden houses still survive.

The Spanish suffix-ote denotes the augmentative — for example, grande means large, but grandote means extra large.

In Spanish, the grapheme ñ is considered a new letter different from n and collated between n and o, as it denotes a different sound from that of a plain n. But the accented vowels á, é, í, ó, ú are not separated from the unaccented vowels a, e, i, o, u, as the acute accent in Spanish only modifies stress within the word or denotes a distinction between homonyms, and does not modify the sound of a letter.

The former Spanish settlement at Sajavit lies within that area occupied during the late Paleoindian period and continuing on into the present day by the Native American society commonly known as the Juaneño ; the name denotes those people who were ministered by the padres at Mission San Juan Capistrano.

* In Spanglish, yonque denotes " junkyard ", not the standard Spanish deshuesadero.

* The Spanish verb asistir, in Spanglish denotes " to assist " rather than true Spanish " to attend ".

* Troca or troque denotes " pickup truck " instead of the standard Spanish camioneta.

The name gaita is used in Galician and Spanish across northern Spain as a generic term for " bagpipe ", although in the south of Spain and Portugal it denotes a variety of horn, flute or oboe like instruments according to region.

Though the English word mob denotes a crowd, often in a destructive or hostile mood, German, Spanish, Polish, Italian and several other European languages have adopted mobbing as a loanword to describe all forms of bullying including that by single persons.

Literally-tico, when used as a suffix, in Costa Rican Spanish denotes something very small, as the suffix-ito would.

Spanish naming customs denotes the personal appellation practiced in Spain and most Spanish-speaking countries, consisting of a given name ( simple or composite ) followed by two family names ( surnames ).

Hispanophone () or Hispanosphere denotes Spanish language speakers and the Spanish-speaking world.

In the event, Cassell's Contemporary Spanish dictionary generally indicates that por denotes “ cause ” and “ reason ” ( retrospective ), while para denotes “ purpose ” and “ destination ” ( prospective ); the following are common usages of these prepositions:

Their objectives were geographic, scientific, ethnological, economic ( looking for possibilities of whaling or fur trading ), and political ( the eventual establishment of French bases or colonial cooperation with their Spanish allies in the Philippines ).

Before the United States ' borders expanded westward in the 19th century, New World regions colonized by the Spanish Empire since the 16th century held to a complex caste system ( casta ) that classified persons by their fractional racial makeup and geographic origin.

The Spanish Netherlands ' importance was the result of its geographic position, sandwiched between France and the Dutch Republic.

The expansion of the geographic horizon to the west was an inevitable consequence, reaching lands of Spanish possession ; a fact which became a topic of the Treaties of Madrid ( 1750 ) and Santo Ildefonso ( 1777 ).

:* Describe the mapping of, geographic basis of, and economic factors in the placement and function of the Spanish missions ; and understand how the mission system expanded the influence of Spain and Catholicism throughout New Spain and Latin America.

Chapulín was a hero of undetermined geographic and temporal location: his adventures could unfold in the American Old West, in ancient China, in London, in the Swiss Alps, during the Spanish Inquisition, in pirate ships, in Nazi Germany ( an episode in which Chespirito played a double role as Chapulín and as Adolf Hitler himself, in the style of Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator ) or outer space, and his enemies range from the Yeti to Egyptian mummies, including his interaction, in some occasions, with literary characters such as Romeo and Juliet (" Juleo y Rumieta ", or literally " Juleo and Rumiet ").

The township was created in 1998 by amalgamating the former towns of Massey and Webbwood with the township of Spanish River and the unorganized geographic townships of May and Shakespeare, and was named for Massey's location at the junction of the Spanish and Aux Sables rivers.

The Coast Live Oak, especially in its Spanish forms encino or encina, encinitas " little oaks ", and encinal " oak grove ", gave its name to seven land grants across California and to many communitities and geographic features.

This included the use of x for the postalveolar fricative sound ( often spelled as sh in English ), a sound that in Spanish has since turned into a velar fricative nowadays spelled j, except in a few geographic names such as " México ".

Due to historic, geographic, and generational diversity, Spanish literature has known a great number of influences and is very diverse.

In 2008, moreover, a gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer that is typically found only in Jewish women was discovered in a cluster of Hispanic Catholic women in Southern Colorado, many of whom trace their family's roots to northern New Mexico Curiously, a Spanish dialect, so-called " Mountain Spanish ", that is spoken by many of the old families of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado — and chiefly only among themselves — appears to be Ladino or Judezmo, a hybrid language of Old Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew with sprinklings of Arabic, Greek and other languages, depending on the geographic region of the speakers or their ancestors.

The first comprehensive world atlas of Spanish origin appeared in the 1950s and was published by Aguilar, S. A. de Ediciones in Madrid: the Atlas Universal Aguilar ( 1954, with 116 pages of maps preceded by an atlas of Spain ; five further editions until 1968 ), but this notable work was excelled by the three volume, large-sized Gran Atlas Aguilar of the same company ( 1969 / 1970, 406 pages of geographic and thematic maps ), one of the most elaborate works of its kind published so far after World War II.

The trips of Venetian explorer Marco Polo throughout Mongol Empire in the 13th century, the Christian Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries, and the Portuguese and Spanish voyages of exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries opened up new horizons and stimulated geographic writings.

American Saddlebreds, Tennessee Walking Horses and Missouri Fox Trotters also originated in the same general geographic area, from the same mixing of Spanish and English blood.

The Spanish coat of arms symbolizes the country, the old kingdoms of Spain, the Royal Crown, the Imperial Crown, the Constitutional monarchy, the Spanish national motto: Plus Ultra, and the Pillars of Hercules with the Spanish geographic situation.

In the early 18th century, Portuguese raiding parties attacked the Spanish missions throughout the Amazon region causing much geographic dispersion of the tribes that were in contact with the Spanish, and inflicting severe casualties .</ ref > Espinosa 1955 </ ref >

Argentine cuisine may be described as a cultural blending of Mediterranean influences ( such as those created by Italian and Spanish populations ) within the wide scope of livestock and agricultural products that are abundant in the country.

The northwest of the country, the Nicoya Peninsula, was the southernmost point of Nahuatl cultural influence when the Spanish conquerors ( conquistadores ) came in the sixteenth century.

The blacks killed or enslaved the native males and married the females, and within a generation they constituted a population of zambos that resisted Spanish authority until the end of the century and afterwards managed to retain a great deal of political and cultural independence.

Exact mechanisms are unclear, but it often fails in areas where populations are culturally segregated, as when the U. S. Indian school service failed to suppress Lakota and Navaho, or when a culture has widely respected autonomous cultural institutions, as when the Spanish failed to suppress Catalan.

Author Mary Romero writes that immigration raids are often carried out at places of gathering and cultural expression such as grocery stores based on the fluency of language of a person ( e. g. being bilingual especially in Spanish ) and skin color of a person.

Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion ; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Babylon and that have come down to us through Greece and Rome ; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “ En boca cerrada no entran moscas ” ( Silence is golden ) belong to the cultural tradition of many north-African countries as far as Ethiopia ; having gone through multiple languages and millennia, this proverb can be traced back to an ancient Babylonian proverb.

Spain has suffered catastrophic events during the last century, such as the Spanish Civil War and the 40 year long Francisco Franco fascist dictatorship, which allowed this breed to be kept relatively unknown both inside and outside of its native country, at least until democracy led to greater social and cultural equality and development.

Currently, almost all of the population of the Americas resides in independent countries ; however, the legacy of the colonisation and settlement by Europeans is that the Americas share many common cultural traits, most notably the predominant adherence to Christianity and use of Indo-European languages ; primarily Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

This is largely due to more than a century of foreign colonial occupation, bringing in Spanish, German, Japanese, Chamorro, Filipino, American, Australian, other western Europeans, and it being home to the capital of the national government, which employs hundreds of people from the other three FSM States ( Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae ) having distinct ethnic and cultural origins.

Tejano music may be categorized as a blend of country music, rock, and R & B born in Texas and performed in both Spanish and English with a variety of cultural influences.

Besides the martial, the demographic and cultural effects of this policy on later Asturian, Spanish and Portuguese history is large.

One of the best examples of this cultural diversity is represented by the former synagogue, now the church of Corpus, and the Jewish cemetery located in " El Pinarillo " with its interpretation center in the most important Jewish palace of the Spanish aljamas, the chief accountant Meir Melamed, son-in-law and successor of Abraham Senior, chief rabbi of the Kingdom of Castile, Melamed after converting to Christianity under the name of Fernán Núñez Coronel, was alderman of the city and occupied important positions in the kingdom.

A map of the European Spanish Empire after the Battle of Mühlberg ( 1547 ) as depicted in the Cambridge Modern History | Cambridge Modern History Atlas ( 1912 )-Habsburg lands are shaded greenBy the mid-16th century, the Margraviate of Antwerp ( Duchy of Brabant ) had become the economic, political, and cultural center of the Netherlands after its capital had shifted from the nearby Lordship of Mechelen to the city of Brussels.

Over a span of more than 150 years, Washington County has seen Native American, Spanish and English cultural influences.

This is an anomaly in the Americas where language shift towards European colonial languages ( in this case, the other official language of Spanish ) has otherwise been a nearly universal cultural and identity marker of mestizos ( people of mixed Spanish and Amerindian ancestry ), and also of culturally assimilated, upwardly mobile Amerindian people.

In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas ( 1656 ).

From June 1929 until 1937 Cernuda lived in Madrid and participated actively in the literary and cultural scene of the Spanish capital.

Contemporary usage has broadened the meaning of Louisiana Creoles to describe a broad cultural group of people of all races who share a French or Spanish background.

She presided over the ancient festivals of the dead, which evolved from Aztec traditions into the modern Day of the Dead after synthesis with Spanish cultural traditions.

The Martin Homeplace Museum showcases artifacts and memorabilia from Caldwell Parish's rich cultural history in a farmhouse built in 1878 on an 1816 Spanish Land Grant.