caudillo

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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.
    • 2024 August 13, Marc Margolis, Opinion: Want to reform the Supreme Court? These strongmen can show a thing or two‎, NPR:
      Then there’s Mexico’s outgoing populist and wannabe caudillo, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is pushing a crowd-pleasing law to require all judges be elected by popular vote, including to the Supreme Court.

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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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kauˈdiʝo/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /kauˈdiʎo/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kauˈdiʃo/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kauˈdiʒo/

 

  • 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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