castellanismo
Spanish
Etymology
From castellano + -ismo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kasteʝaˈnismo/ [kas.t̪e.ʝaˈniz.mo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kasteʎaˈnismo/ [kas.t̪e.ʎaˈniz.mo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kasteʃaˈnismo/ [kas.t̪e.ʃaˈniz.mo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kasteʒaˈnismo/ [kas.t̪e.ʒaˈniz.mo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ismo
- Syllabification: cas‧te‧lla‧nis‧mo
Noun
castellanismo m (plural castellanismos)
- Hispanicism, Hispanism, Castilianism
- Synonyms: españolismo, hispanismo
- Castilian movement
- (linguistics) a borrowing from Castilian
Related terms
Further reading
- “castellanismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025