caudillo

See also: Caudillo

English

Etymology

From Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin caput, capitis (“head”). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, capitellum, and Kadet. More possible, from kaput and ili (iri, ür, uri: town), from Basque language. In Iberian ili is high point, high city.

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

Borrowed from Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum. Doublet of cadeau, cadet, and 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

Inherited from Old Spanish cabdiello, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin capitem.

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
  • → Russian: кауди́льо (kaudílʹo)

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