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Note 1: This guide is intended to provide guidelines both for creating Spanish entries on English Wiktionary as well as for adding Spanish translations to English words. The main guidelines for creating any entry on English Wiktionary is set forth in Wiktionary:Entry layout explained; this page is an addition to that page, not a replacement.
Note 2: If a change occurs in the basic Wiktionary template (currently at Wiktionary:Entry layout explained that affects Spanish entries, then that change should be reflected here.
The name of the entry is that of the word or phrase that you are defining.
Capitalization: Spanish does not capitalize words as often as English, so the entry name will usually begin with a lowercase letter. Exceptions include many abbreviations and some proper nouns, such as names of people and countries.
Diacritics: Spanish uses two diacritics: the acute accent (á é í ó ú) and the dieresis (ü). These should always be included. Spanish speakers sometimes drop acute accents from capital letters, but at Wiktionary we always include them. Similarly, the letters n and ñ should always be distinguished.
Periods: Periods are used only in abbreviations (abreviaturas such as EE. UU.). Symbols (such as cm or $), shortenings (acortamientos such as foto) and all types of acronyms and initialims (siglas and acrónimos) don't use periods.
{{head|es|(part of speech)}}
. It is preferred to make use of the standard headword templates provided.This is a simple entry for the word lápiz, and shows the most fundamental elements of an article:
This example can be copied and used to start an article or section of an article.
==Spanish== ===Noun=== {{es-noun|m}} # ], ] # ]
The part of speech section will often include simple translation(s) into English in place of definitions, but there may be subsections.
Following is the preferred sequence for these standard sections:
==Spanish== ===Alternative forms=== ===Etymology=== ===Pronunciation=== ===Noun=== ====Usage notes==== ====Conjugation==== (Note: Only for verb entries) ====Quotations==== ====Synonyms==== ====Antonyms==== ====Derived terms==== ====Related terms==== ===See also===
Please note that the Noun header is only one possible part of speech that may appear as the header. If the entry being created is for a Spanish verb, then "Verb" should appear in place of the word "Noun" in the example above.
If you read Spanish, a good place to get the etymology information for a word is the Spanish Royal Academy's Dictionary. If the word is a derivative using a suffix/prefix and another word you can note that as well (], ]). Examples:
From {{inh|es|la|volāre}}, present active infinitive of {{m|la|volō}}.
{{suffix|es|café|al}}
{{prefix|es|ante|mano}}
Etymologies should be traced back to lemma forms whenever possible.
The following accent tags can be used to distinguish between Spanish dialects:
{{a|Standard Spanish}}
{{a|ceseo}}
, {{a|seseo}}
, {{a|ceceo}}
{{a|lleísmo}}
, {{a|yeísmo}}
{{a|Northern Spain}}
, {{a|Southern Spain}}
, {{a|Canarian Spanish}}
, ...{{a|coastal Mexico}}
, {{a|Peru}}
, {{a|Costa Rica}}
, {{a|Puerto Rico}}
, {{a|Andean Venezuela}}
, {{a|highland Bolivia}}
, {{a|Peruvian Sierra}}
, ...See Wiktionary:Spanish pronunciation for the specific IPA symbols used for Spanish phonemes and phones.
Most English entries use a headword template immediately following the part of speech header. For Spanish entries, the following templates are available.
For lemma Noun entries (singular forms of nouns, not plurals ):
{{es-noun|m}}
for masculine nouns{{es-noun|f}}
for feminine nouns{{es-noun|mf}}
for countable nouns which have forms of both gendersFor lemma Verb entries (the infinitive):
{{es-verb}}
for all verbsFor lemma Adjective entries (usually masculine singular):
{{es-adj}}
(see template page for information about indicating feminine and/or plural form)For non-lemma noun, verb, and adjective entries (e.g. plurals of nouns, feminine and forms of adjectives, and verb forms that do not end in -r), {{head}}
may be used instead:
Some non-lemma forms may be better expressed with only the term bolded (or a template that produces such a result, such as es-verb-form), while information on the form is provided on the definition line (through a template such as es-verb form of). This is particularly helpful in verb forms, which may have multiple definitions.