Hispanicized
Made culturally Spanish
Hispanicized describes something that has been made Spanish in character, language, or culture.
A Hispanicized surname reflects Spanish spelling conventions; a Hispanicized region has absorbed Spanish cultural influences through colonization or migration: Hispanicized indigenous communities in the Philippines.
The term applies to names, places, peoples, or institutions that have taken on Spanish characteristics.
Language of Iberia
- loanwordsAdopted foreign vocabulary
- vocabularyOne's word collection
- CastilianSpain's official language
- phoneticsStudy of speech sounds
orthography · pronunciation · accents · dialects · cognates · etymology · neologisms · lexicon
Spanish colonial soldiers
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- missionariesReligious workers abroad
- encomiendaForced indigenous labor grant
- haciendaSpanish-speaking country estate
conquest · Catholicism · evangelization · viceroy · presidio · repartimiento · missions · mestizo
Adopting another group's customs
- syncretismFusion of different beliefs
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
indigenization · creolization · blending · fusion · amalgamation · reinterpretation · absorption · incorporation
Spanish
Language of Iberia
- loanwordsAdopted foreign vocabulary
- vocabularyOne's word collection
- CastilianSpain's official language
phonetics · orthography · pronunciation · accents · dialects · cognates · etymology · neologisms · lexicon · morphology
conquistadors
Spanish colonial soldiers
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- missionariesReligious workers abroad
- encomiendaForced indigenous labor grant
hacienda · conquest · Catholicism · evangelization · viceroy · presidio · repartimiento · missions · mestizo · criollo
acculturation
Adopting another group's customs
- syncretismFusion of different beliefs
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
localization · indigenization · creolization · blending · fusion · amalgamation · reinterpretation · absorption · incorporation · hybridization
fiesta
Festive public celebration
- siestaMidday rest
- quinceañeraFifteenth birthday celebration
- mariachiMexican folk ensemble
flamenco · tango · corrida · fandango · carnival · tapas · paella · empanada · churrasco · sombrero
- Cultural adaptationanglicized, Germanized, Hellenized, Latinized, Americanized
HispanicizedAmericanized
Culturally adapted to US
Germanized · Italianized · Hellenized · Japanized · Indianized
Hispanicizedunassimilated
Not absorbed into surroundings
indigenous · pre-colonial · native · autochthonous · preserved