Dictionary

Hispanicism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /hɪˈspænɪsɪzm̩/

Etymology

Etymology tree English Hispanic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Hispanicism From Hispanic + -ism.

Meanings

1. A Spanish-language item as it appears in another language.
   • Hispanidad is a Hispanicism for 'hispanism', especially regarding political objectives.
2. Support for hegemony of Spain.
   • One French writer argued that Hispanicism was a proper response to U.S. expansionism, provided Spain could assure its sister Latin states in Europe (France and Italy) that their interests were not endangered. 1994, James W. Cortada, Spain in the Nineteenth-century World, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 126:
   • More recently there has burst forth an enthusiastic Hispanicism, no longer the Hispanicism of Columbus Day with its odes to the great navigator, nor the Hispanicism of the bull fighters and the cabaret singers, but a historical Hispanicism […] 1959, Lewis Hanke, Modern Latin America: Continent in Ferment, Van Nostrand, page 131:

Forms

Synonyms

Hispanism · Castilianism

Translations (20)

pt espanholismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · pl hiszpanizm (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · ca castellanisme (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · pt hispanismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · de Hispanismus (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · sv hispanisering (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · it ispanismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · ast españolismu (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · ast castellanismu (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · sv förspanskning (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · tl Ispanismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · gl españolismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · gl hispanismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · es hispanismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · ca hispanisme (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · pt castelhanismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · fr hispanisme (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · es castellanismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · es españolismo (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language) · gv Spaainaghys (a Spanish language item as it appears in another language)