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spanish | romanova |

As a verb spanish

is (printing) to subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material.

As a proper noun romanova is

a constructed language invented by david crandall based on spanish, french, italian, and portuguese.

spanish

English

(wikipedia Spanish) (wikibooks Spanish)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to Spain.
  • * 2005 , J. P. Sullivan, Martial, the unexpected classic , page 1
    • Whether Martial's heart was in the Spanish highlands or whether he was happy enough in Rome will be discussed later
  • Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.
  • * 1996 , Oscar Zeta Acosta, "From Whence I Came", Oscar "Zeta" Acosta: the uncollected works , page 42
    • Though she was Indian like the rest of us, she had a fine Spanish nose.
  • * 2007 , Lynette Rohrer Shirk, The Everything Tapas and Small Plates Cookbook , chapter 1
    • Spanish cuisine is not as spicy hot as Mexican, but it is flavorful and bright.
  • Of or pertaining to the language.
  • * 1918 , Julián Moreno-Lacalle, Elements of Spanish Pronunciation , page 12
    • Fundamentally, the Spanish vowel sounds are only five, even though as a matter of fact there may be different other sounds for such vowels as [a], [e] and [o].

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "Spanish")

    Derived terms

    * spanish * Spanish Armada * Spanish chestnut * Spanish dancing * Spanish flu * Spanish fly * Spanish Guinea * Spanish influenza * Spanish Inquisition * Spanish Main * Spanish omelette * Spanish onion * Spanish Sahara * Spanish walk * Spanish Water Dog

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas.
  • * 1873 , Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy , page 163'
    • "If he speaks Spanish , my daughter can converse with him ; she has but shortly arrived from Spain."
  • * 1928 , (Otto Jespersen), An International Language , page 48
    • Therefore in Novial, as well as in Esp-Ido, we simplify the spelling in all words containing double letters in the national languages, from which the words are taken: pasa'' (E ''pass'', F ''passer''), ''efekte'', ''komun'' (F ''commun'', E ''common''), etc. In this we follow the beautiful example of Spanish''', which writes ''pasar'', ''efecto'', ''común'', etc., and even extend it to cases in which '''Spanish makes a distinction in sound and spelling, as with ''ll'' and ''rr'': ''bel'' S ''bello'', F ''belle'', ''koresponda'', S ''corresponder , etc.
  • * 1995 , Hanna Pishwa & Karl Maroldt (editors), The Development of Morphological Systematicity , page 146
    • In contrast with the creole languages discussed above, the article systems of Rumanian, French, Spanish , and Portuguese are more complex, since neutralization fails to occur to a large extent.
  • A town in Ontario, Canada

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "Spanish")

    Synonyms

    * (language) Castilian

    Derived terms

    * Old Spanish

    See also

    * (es) * Language list

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (collective plural) People of Spain, collectively.
  • * 1976 , Robert Rézette, The Spanish Enclaves in Morocco , page 62
    • The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets.
  • People of Hispanic origin.
  • * 1970 , Henry Sioux Johnson, William J. Hernández-Martinez, Educating the Mexican American , page 87
    • Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos).

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "Spanish")

    Synonyms

    * (people of Spain) Spaniards * (people of Hispanic origin) Hispanics

    External links

    *

    romanova

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A constructed language invented by David Crandall based on Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
  • * 2000 January 4th, David Crandal], [https://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.russian soc.culture.russian] , “[https://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.russian/browse_thread/thread/9651685794fe9725/7122bdaabbc35e81 ROMANOVA: a New Internet Language”
    • Romanova consists of 2000 thousand words formed from the vocabularies of the four major romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
  • * 2000 September 2nd, Paul O Bartlett], [https://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial alt.language.artificial] , “[https://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/browse_thread/thread/de1c3033364845b0/624c90e44c99f816 Collective effort”
    • I already know of one Pan-Romance language in the works, Romanova .
  • * 2003 April 23rd, Peter Kleiweg], [https://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial alt.language.artificial] , “[https://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/browse_thread/thread/ff7cd8f0544f4b30/9835c3610661da8c romance IAL's”
    • I am interested in IAL's based on romance languages. I know of Interlingua, Romanova , and Nova Lingua Franca.
  • * 2006 , Giorgio Borbone, Alessandro Mengozzi, Mauro Tosco, Linguistic and oriental studies in honour of Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 59:
    • If you can read this text (above), then the new language that we call Romanova is working very well!

    External links

    * * Romanova Grammar and Dictionary