español

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Spanish; pertaining to Spain, its people, culture,environment or language

Noun

 * 1) a Spaniard (man)

Noun

 * 1) Spanish, Castilian (language)

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Spanish; pertaining to Spain, its people, culture, or language

Noun

 * 1) Spaniard (man)
 * 2) Spanish, Castilian (language)

Etymology
, . Probably a thirteenth-century borrowing from (compare modern 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from, from , back-formed from , assumed in comparison to 🇨🇬 to reflect.

According to phonetic rules, if inherited from Latin, the Castilian Spanish result would have been *españuelo (though some argue that this did not take root because the suffix would be perceived as diminutive; more likely, it was simply because there was no need at the time for a common secular name for all the inhabitants of Christian Iberia/Spain, and a common identity as a unified people or entity had not yet been formed. Until then, the people used  to refer to themselves). The word was supposedly imported from Provence by a medieval chronicler (it was originally introduced by pilgrims in Santiago) because there was no existing translation of the earlier Roman word Hispani when writing a chronicle of Spanish history, but this was the word Provençal speakers used to refer to the Christian kingdoms of what would later become Spain. In Old Spanish there was also a form which disappeared after the first half of the 14th century, possibly derived from a Vulgar Latin. Compare also, the word Mozarabic speakers used for themselves, presumably from a 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Spanish
 * 2) Spanish

Noun

 * 1) Spaniard (man)

Noun

 * 1)  Spanish