espanhol

espanhol m or f (plural espanhóis, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of español

espanhol m (plural espanhóis, feminine espanhola, feminine plural espanholas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of español

• “espanhol” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• espanol, espannol, spanhol, yspañol

Borrowed from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin *Hispaniolus, from Latin Hispānus.

• IPA^(key): /espaˈɲɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Hyphenation: es‧pa‧nhol

espanhol m or f (plural espanhoes)

1. Iberian (of or pertaining to the Iberian Peninsula)
   • c. 14th–15th century, Francisco de Melgaço, transl., Vida de Sam Bernardo, book II, Alcobaça, translation of Vita prima Bernardi by William of St-Thierry, page 45r; republished as Lawrence A. Sharpe, editor, The Old Portuguese Vida de Sam Bernardo, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1971, →ISBN, page 109:

     Esta posuya o demonio o quall ora falava linguoa italiana ora spanhol.

     She was possessed by the devil, who would sometimes speak the Italian language, sometimes the Iberian one.

espanhol m or f (plural espanhoes)

1. Iberian (native to the Iberian Peninsula)
   • 13th century, João Baveca, Pero danbroa sſodes mayordomo; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 1457:

     E deſes uossos narizs / Logmifico seu cuu q̃bramtadassy q̃ / Ja senp̃ aya deſpanoes medo

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• Fala: español
• Galician: español
• Portuguese: espanhol

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “espanhol”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “espan?ol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “spa[ñn+h?o]”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “espanhol”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

• hespanhol (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espanhol (“Iberian”), from Old Occitan espaignol, from a Vulgar Latin *Hispaniolus, from Latin Hispānus. Compare Galician and Spanish español. Doublet of hispano

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɪs.pɐ̃ʲ̃.ˈj̃ɔw/, /ɪʃ.pɐ̃ʲ̃.ˈj̃ɔw/
• Hyphenation: es‧pa‧nhol

espanhol (feminine espanhola, masculine plural espanhóis, feminine plural espanholas)

1. Spanish (of or relating to Spain, its people or culture)
2. Spanish (of or relating to the Spanish language)

espanhol m (plural espanhóis, feminine espanhola, feminine plural espanholas)

1. Spaniard (person from Spain)
2. (uncountable) Spanish (Romance language spoken in Spain and much of Latin America)

   Synonym: castelhano

• “espanhol” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “espanhol”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “espanhol”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025