flamenco
See also: Flamenco
English
Etymology
From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)
- (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
- 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:
- It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
- 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:
- (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
- 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:
- La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!
- 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:
Derived terms
- flamenco guitar
Translations
a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain
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a song or a dance in such a style
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See also
- fandango
Verb
flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)
- (intransitive) To dance flamenco.
- 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212:
- "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."
- 2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:
- Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.
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Asturian
Adjective
flamenco
- neuter of flamencu
Finnish
Etymology
From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɑmeŋkːo/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋkːo̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈflɑmeŋko/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋko̞]
Noun
flamenco
- flamenco
Declension
| Inflection of flamenco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | flamenco | flamencot | |
| genitive | flamencon | flamencojen | |
| partitive | flamencoa | flamencoja | |
| illative | flamencoon | flamencoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | flamenco | flamencot | |
| accusative | nom. | flamenco | flamencot |
| gen. | flamencon | ||
| genitive | flamencon | flamencojen | |
| partitive | flamencoa | flamencoja | |
| inessive | flamencossa | flamencoissa | |
| elative | flamencosta | flamencoista | |
| illative | flamencoon | flamencoihin | |
| adessive | flamencolla | flamencoilla | |
| ablative | flamencolta | flamencoilta | |
| allative | flamencolle | flamencoille | |
| essive | flamencona | flamencoina | |
| translative | flamencoksi | flamencoiksi | |
| instructive | — | flamencoin | |
| abessive | flamencotta | flamencoitta | |
| comitative | — | flamencoineen | |
| Possessive forms of flamenco (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | flamenconi | flamencomme |
| 2nd person | flamencosi | flamenconne |
| 3rd person | flamenconsa | |
French
Noun
flamenco m (plural flamencos)
- flamenco (music, dance)
Further reading
- “flamenco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish flamenco, from Dutch Vlaming.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flaˈmɛŋ.kɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɛŋkɔ
- Syllabification: fla‧men‧co
Noun
flamenco n (indeclinable)
- flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
- flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)
Further reading
- flamenco in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Spanish flamenco.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /flaˈmẽ.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /flaˈmẽ.ko/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /flɐˈmẽ.ku/
- Hyphenation: fla‧men‧co
Noun
flamenco m (plural flamencos)
- flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain)
Romanian
Etymology
From Spanish flamenco.
Noun
flamenco n (uncountable)
- flamenco
Declension
declension of flamenco (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) flamenco | flamencoul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) flamenco | flamencoului |
| vocative | flamencoule | |
Spanish
Etymology
From Dutch Vlaming.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flaˈmenko/ [flaˈmẽŋ.ko]
- Rhymes: -enko
- Syllabification: fla‧men‧co
Adjective
flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)
- Flemish
- (relational) flamenco
- (colloquial) insolent, cheeky
Noun
flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)
- Fleming, a Flemish person
Noun
flamenco m (plural flamencos)
- flamingo (bird)
- flamenco (music)
- flamenco (dance)
Derived terms
Birds
- flamenco del Caribe
- flamenco andino
- flamenco austral
- flamenco chico
- flamenco chileno
- flamenco común
- flamenco de James
- flamenco enano
Dance
- aflamencado
- antiflamenquismo
- flamencología
- flamencólogo
- flamenquilla
- flamenquín
- flamenquismo
- flamenquista
Noun
flamenco m (uncountable)
- Flemish, the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium
- Flemish, a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium
Related terms
- Flandes
See also
- bailaor, bailaora
Further reading
- “flamenco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014