pueblo

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpwɛbləʊ/

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.]
   • 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpweblo/

pueblo m (plural pueblos)

1. people, nation
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a.

     & dixo aella. ij. / gétes a ento vientre. &. ij. pu / eblos de tus entránas. ý ſtran.

     And he said to her: "two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated."

   • Idem, f. 12r. b.

     E dixo dios cate & ui. afflicci- / on de myo pueblo q es en egip / to.

     And God said: "I have noticed and seen the affliction of my people in Egypt."

   • Idem, 13r. b.

     E dixieró / a pharaon eſto diz el sénor. Dios / de iſrl´ dexa mio pueblo. e ſeruir / me a en el deſerto.

     And they said to pharaoh: 'this is what the Lord, God of Israel, says: 'let my people go and they shall serve me in the desert'.'

• poblar

• Ladino: puevlo
• Spanish: pueblo
  • Papiamentu: pueblo
  • → English: pueblo

pueblo

1. town

From Spanish pueblo.

pueblo

1. village
2. people, nation

From Old Spanish pueblo, from Latin populum, singular accusative of populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”).

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

pueblo m (plural pueblos)

1. town, village

   Synonym: aldea

   Coordinate term: ciudad

2. the common people, the working classes

   Synonym: clase obrera

3. population, people, nation

   Synonym: nación

• Papiamentu: pueblo
• → English: pueblo

pueblo

1. first-person singular present indicative of poblar

• “pueblo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014