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from Spanish, chaparro loosely meaning small evergreen oak, from Basque txapar, "small, short". chaps. from Mexican Spanish chaparreras, leg protectors for riding through chaparral. chayote. from Spanish, literally: "squash", from Nahuatl chayotl meaning "spiny squash".
Translation Notes a bene placito: from one well pleased: i.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure). a capite ad calcem: from head to heel: i.e., "from top to bottom", "all the way through", or "from head ...
Unless otherwise specified, Words in English from Amerindian Languages is among the sources used for each etymology. A number of words from Quechua have entered English, mostly via Spanish, adopting Hispanicized spellings. Ayahuasca (definition) from aya "corpse" and waska "rope", via Spanish ayahuasca.
quae non posuisti, ne tollas. do not take away what you did not put in place. Plato, Laws. quae non prosunt singula multa iuvant. what alone is not useful helps when accumulated. Ovid, Remedia amoris. quaecumque sunt vera. whatsoever is true. frequently used as motto; taken from Philippians 4:8 of the Bible.
This is a list of letters of the Latin script.The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'.
For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.
The conjunction "and" in Spanish is y (pronounced [i] before a consonant, [j] before a vowel) before all words except those beginning with an [i] sound (spelled i- or hi-). Before a syllabic [i] sound (and not the diphthong [je] as in hierro), the Spanish conjunction is e [e̞]. Portuguese uses e [i] before all words. Sal y pimienta. (Spanish ...