cacique

• cazic, cazique

Borrowed from Spanish cacique, from Taíno *kasike or Lokono kassequa, cazaqah (“chieftain; power”).

cacique (plural caciques)

1. (historical) A tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies.

   Synonym: chieftain

   • 1993 December 5, Anthony Depalma, “Why Mexico Has Only One Big Hat In the Ring”, in New York Times‎:

     Mexico has loved a strong leader since before Moctezuma. Indigenous tribes were ruled by caciques, or chieftans^[sic], and in some rural communities caciques are still unchallenged.

2. A local political leader in Latin America, Spain, or the Philippines.

   Coordinate term: caudillo

3. (ornithology) Any of a number of tropical blackbirds from Central America and South America, family Icteridae.

• cacique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish cacique.

• IPA^(key): /ka.sik/

• Audio

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cacique m (plural caciques)

1. (historical) chieftain (Indian chief in a tribe)
2. (by extension) a very powerful person

• “cacique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Spanish cacique, from Taíno *kasike or Lokono kassequa, cazaqah (“chieftain; power”).

• Rhymes: -ike
• Hyphenation: ca‧ci‧que

cacique m (plural caciques)

1. (historical) chieftain (Indian chief in a tribe)
2. (by extension, derogatory) a very powerful person, in particular one who abuses and imposes his power locally for political gain; fat cat; tyrant
   • 1885, O Tío Marcos da Portela, II, 60, page 1:

     Poucos terán boas lembranzas do ano que se foi, porque escomenzou mal e non poido acabar pior. O inverno foi crúo, a primadeira esmorecida e chuviosa, o vrau abafante, o outono desleigado. Día por día pasáro-no contando os seus traballos e coitas os labregos, agardando pola súa redención os que viven escravos dos caciques d'aldea, pensando na súa terriña os emigrantes que morren lonxe dela, aduanando falcatruadas os que trunfan e medran á conta dos máis

     Few people will have good memories of last year, because it started badly and couldn't have ended worse: winter was harsh, spring rainy and faint, summer stifling, autumn sloppy. Day after day, the peasant spent their time telling about their troubles and disgraces, waiting for their redemption the ones who live enslaved by village tyrants, longing their land the emigrants who die far away from her, plotting frauds those who trump and grow at the expense of others.

   • 1977, Suso Vaamonde / traditional, Ua! (song):

     este pandeiro que toco
     por moito que repenique
     non teñas medo que rache
     que é de coiro de cacique

     this tambourine I play,
     no matter how much I drum it,
     have no fear, it won't break,
     'cause is made of tyrant skin

• “cacique” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cacique” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cacique” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Spanish cacique, from Taíno *kasike or Lokono kassequa, cazaqah (“chieftain; power”).

• Hyphenation: ca‧ci‧que

cacique m (plural caciques, feminine cacica, feminine plural cacicas)

1. (historical) cacique (chieftain)

   Synonym: chefe

2. (by extension) very powerful person
3. (Brazil, informal) money

• caciquismo

Borrowed from Taíno *kasike (“chieftain”) or Lokono kassequa (“chieftain; power”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaˈθike/ [kaˈθi.ke]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kaˈsike/ [kaˈsi.ke]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ike
• Syllabification: ca‧ci‧que

cacique m (plural caciques, feminine cacique or cacica, feminine plural caciques or cacicas)

1. (historical) chieftain (Indian chief in a tribe)
2. (by extension) powerful person, fat cat
3. (ornithology) cacique (bird)

• → Catalan: cacic
• → English: cacique
• → French: cacique
• → Galician: cacique
• → German: Kazike
• → Portuguese: cacique

• “cacique”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014