caudillo
See also: Caudillo
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin caput, capitis (“head”). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, and capitellum. More possible, from kaput and ili (iri, ür, uri: town), from Basque language. In Iberian ili is high point, high city.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caudillo (plural caudillos)
- A leader.
- 2020 June 1, Aris Roussinos, Covid has exposed America as a failed state[1]:
- While an America in decline may throw up a more competent caudillo than Trump in time, it is difficult to reasonably conclude that it possesses the societal solidarity to wage a decades-long, global struggle against a near-competitor.
- A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America.
- 1994 October 14, Dallas Morning News:
- For, despite all the debunking and cynicism in this generation, there still are, amazingly, trusting people around who need to believe in great helmsmen, dear leaders, fuhrers, presidents-for-life, generalissimos and charismatic caudillos.
- 2024 August 13, Marc Margolis, Opinion: Want to reform the Supreme Court? These strongmen can show a thing or two[2], NPR:
- Then there’s Mexico’s outgoing populist and wannabe caudillo, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is pushing a crowd-pleasing law to require all judges be elected by popular vote, including to the Supreme Court.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]military dictator in South America
See also
[edit]Further reading
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum. Doublet of cadeau, cadet, and chapiteau.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caudillo m (plural caudillos)
Further reading
[edit]- “caudillo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Spanish caudillo.
Noun
[edit]caudillo m (plural caudillo)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | caudillo | caudilloul | caudillo | caudilloi | |
| genitive-dative | caudillo | caudilloului | caudillo | caudillolor | |
| vocative | caudilloule | caudillolor | |||
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish cabdiello, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin capitem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kauˈdiʝo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kauˈdiʎo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kauˈdiʃo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kauˈdiʒo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: cau‧di‧llo
Noun
[edit]caudillo m (plural caudillos)
- military leader, caudillo
- 2019 May 16, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, “¿Y ahora qué hacemos con los caudillos?”, in El País[3]:
- La revista The Economist que circula esta semana incluye una larga pieza en la que alerta sobre el fenómeno populista que recorre el continente […] América Latina, afirma, tiene una debilidad no superada por sus caudillos.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
- → English: caudillo
- → French: caudillo
- → Portuguese: caudilho
- → Russian: кауди́льо (kaudílʹo)
Further reading
[edit]- “caudillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
caudillo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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