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  2. Diccionario de la lengua española - Wikipedia

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    The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] ( DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It was first published in 1780, as the ...

  3. Lina - Wikipedia

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    Lina has a different meaning in different languages for example "Lina" in Arabic refers to a "small, young palm tree", or the classical plural meaning of "palm trees". It is a direct Quranic Arabic (Classical Arabic) name. Figuratively, Lina means "tender" or "tenderness" and "delicate".

  4. Llanito - Wikipedia

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    Llanito or Yanito ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝaˈnito]) is a Romance dialect. It is a mix of English and Spanish, laced with words from other languages, such as Ligurian; it is spoken in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. [3]

  5. La Línea de la Concepción - Wikipedia

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    La Línea de la Concepción ( Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈlinea ðe la konθeβˈθjon] ), often referred to simply as La Línea, is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, Andalusia . The city lies on the sandy isthmus which is part of the eastern flank of the Bay of Gibraltar, and it limits with the Gibraltar–Spain ...

  6. Casta - Wikipedia

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    Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico. Casta ( Spanish: [ˈkasta]) is a term meaning lineage or race in Spanish and Portuguese. The term has historically been used as a racial and social identifier for mixed-race offspring in the colonial Spanish Empire in the Americas.

  7. Spanish units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A vara (meaning "rod" or "pole", abbreviation: var) is an old Spanish unit of length. Varas are a surveying unit that appear in many deeds in the southern United States due to them previously being part of Mexico, they became part of the United States due to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Varas were also used in many parts of Latin America ...

  8. Linnéa - Wikipedia

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    Linnéa is a female given name of Swedish origin. It has two derivations, both of which are linked to the famous 18th-century Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus, who was ennobled as Carl von Linné later in life. Primarily, people have named their children in his honor; [1] Linnaeus and Linné have been used as given names, usually for boys, and ...

  9. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...