caudillo

See also: Caudillo

English

Etymology

From Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin caput, capitis (“head”). Doublet of cadet, caddy, and capitellum.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔˈdiː(j)oʊ/, /kaʊˈdiː(j)oʊ/

Noun

caudillo (plural caudillos)

  1. A leader.
    • 2020 June 1, Aris Roussinos, Covid has exposed America as a failed state‎:
      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.
  2. 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.

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French

Etymology

From Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum. Doublet of chapiteau.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaw.di.jo/, /ko.di.jo/

Noun

caudillo m (plural caudillos)

  1. caudillo

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish caudillo.

Noun

caudillo m (plural caudillo)

  1. caudillo

Declension
Declension of caudillo
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) caudillo caudilloul (niște) caudillo caudilloi
genitive/dative (unui) caudillo caudilloului (unor) caudillo caudillolor
vocative caudilloule caudillolor

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Spanish cabdiello, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin caput, capitis.

Pronunciation
 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kauˈdiʝo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʝo]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kauˈdiʎo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʎo]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kauˈdiʃo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʃo]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kauˈdiʒo/ [kau̯ˈð̞i.ʒo]

 
  • (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝo
  • (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎo
  • (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃo
  • (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒo

  • Syllabification: cau‧di‧llo

Noun

caudillo m (plural caudillos)

  1. military leader, caudillo
    • 2019 May 16, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, “¿Y ahora qué hacemos con los caudillos?”, in El País‎:
      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.
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Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Catalan: cabdill (from obsolete form cabdillo)
  • → English: caudillo
  • → French: caudillo
  • → Portuguese: caudilho

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