Spanish

[Sarah]

Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. Spanish bayonet(Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Yucca alorifolia) with rigid spine-tippedleaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of theSouthwestern United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.-- Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.-- Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork. Ure.-- Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub (Spartium junceum)having many green flexible rushlike twigs.-- Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having a darkreddish brown color, due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron.-- Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa) ofTexas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but having pinnateleaves and a three-seeded fruit.-- Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single blocks.A double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks. Luce(Textbook of Seamanship).-- Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called becauseobtained from Aragon in Spain.-- Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (lepidium Cadamines), aspecies of peppergrass.-- Spanish curiew (Zoöl.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.] -- Spanishdaggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.-- Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree (CordiaGerascanthus) furnishing hard and useful timber.-- Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained bycalcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.-- Spanish flag (Zoöl.), the California rockfish (Sebastichthysrubrivinctus). It is conspicuously colored with bands of red andwhite.-- Spanish fly (Zoöl.), a brilliant green beetle, common in thesouth of Europe, used for raising blisters. See Blister beetle underBlister, and Cantharis.-- Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.-- Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.-- Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.-- Spanish leather. See Cordwain.-- Spanish mackerel. (Zoöl.) (a) A species of mackerel (Scombercolias) found both in Europe and America. In America called chubmackerel, big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel. (b) In the UnitedStates, a handsome mackerel having bright yellow round spots(Scomberomorus maculatus), highly esteemed as a food fish. The nameis sometimes erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. underMackerel.-- Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern portion ofthe Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous coast, embracing theroute traversed by Spanish treasure ships from the New to the OldWorld.-- Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia.-- Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed (Bidens bipinnata)having achenia armed with needlelike awns.-- Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium) of thesouth of Europe.-- Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under Potato.-- Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, butslightly yellower and warmer. Fairholt.-- Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headedsail.-- Spanish sheep (Zoöl.), a merino.-- Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk bypulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment.-- Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope woundabout it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever.

[Sarah]

the best looking people.

[Sarah]

1 Person from Spain
2 Language spoken in Spain. But also in other countries such as Mexico or Puerto Rico
3 Fourth most spoken language (between 420-425 milion people) after chinese, english and hindi.
4 The language which has the funny letter

[Sarah]

1-Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romantic language spoken by about 352 million people. It is considered the third or fourth most spoken language in the world. The Spanish language comes from what is known as “Vulgar Latin”; containing some influences from Celtiberian, Arabic and Basque. Miguel de Cervantes is considered to be the “Shakespeare” of the Spanish language.
2-People from Spain (Spaniards); they are the descendants Celtiberians, Visigoths and Latins.
*note: People usually tend to refer to Hispanic, Spanish and Latino to anyone who comes from the Iberian Peninsula or Latin-American, however this are bad definitions since:
1 Only certain countries in South America, mostly Argentina can claim Spanish ancestry and only the “upper class” of the other Latin-American countries can claim Spanish ancestry.
2 People from Brazil are not Spanish; they were conquered by the Portuguese but they don’t have Portuguese ancestry either.
3 Latino; Latin should only be apply to any of the Euro-Latin countries since they have real Latin ancestry, most people in Latin America have either African ancestry of Amerindian ancestry.
4 There are many different styles to speak Spanish, the “normal” or standard Spanish is the one who uses “tu” or “usted”, the one who uses the “voceo” is also valid and spoken mostly in Spain but some variations of the “voceo” are spoken in regions like Central America or Argentina.

[Sarah]

coolest language ever!!

[Sarah]

a person from Spain or a person whose ethnic composition is primarily derived of ancestors from Spain. (For this reason people from Latin America cannot necessarily be considered Spainsh see Note)

a latin-based language used mostly in Spain and many countries in Latin America. Spanish is also very widely spoken in parts of the Pacific (i.e. the Philippines) , and Africa (i.e. Morocco). Countries in Latin America like Mexico and Puerto Rico speak highly colloquialized variations of Spanish infused over generations with local native and colonial era slave dialects, these variations however are still considered Spanish; for example, it would be inapproprite to suggest that someone 'speaks Mexican.'

of or related to Spain.

*Note: This does not apply to people from [Latin America], Despite popular/ignorant belief: Latin Americans are not 'Spanish' in this sense, even though many speak Spanish.
Latin America consists of many ethnicities, including European (Spanish, Portuguese, British, French, Deutsch mostly), African, Amerindian (or 'Natives of the Americas' for the less educated), Arab and even Asian (how did the Japenese end up in Chile anyway?)
While Spanish is the language spoken in most Latin American countries, the term Latin used for [Latinos] stems from the fact that many other latin based languages are spoken in this region of the world i.e. Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian. For the same reason European countries who speak Latin languages can technically be considered Latin also, however Latin is more encompassing than [Latino] which refers directly to people from Latin America.
Calling someone Spanish who is from Latin America without further information of their ancestory is sign of [disintelligence].

[Sarah]

sexy language spoken in spain and latin america

[Sarah]

the fourth most spoken language on Earth (after body, Chinese, and what's-it-called). Because of its high saturation of words and numerous associations to the number 43, atomic number of [technetium], it is considered to be a radioactive language, which decays by alpha-particle emission to Latin.

[Sarah]

People from spain. People call latino's spanish because they speak spanish even though they may not be spanish.

[Sarah]

a language whose real name isn't even spanish, but castillian

a citizen of spain, but according to some ignoramus in the USA, a puerto rican.

[Tanya Shivari]

belonging to or relating to Spain, its people, or its language: