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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: chi‧le‧nis‧mo
Noun
chilenismo m (plural chilenismos)
- Chileanism (term or linguistic feature specific to Chilean Spanish)
Spanish
Etymology
From chileno (“Chilean”) + -ismo.
Noun
chilenismo m (plural chilenismos)
- Chileanism
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 26:Es muy probable que haya sido llevado allá por aquellos emigrados chilenos de que habla Gagini, que difundieron en ese lejano país [Costa Rica] un crecido número de chilenismos, como es fácil comprobarlo examinando el diccionario de voces provinciales de este autor, cuya lectura, en ocasiones, hace la impresión de estar consultando un vocabulario chileno.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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