adelita

See also: Adelita

English

Etymology

From Spanish adelita.

Noun

adelita (plural adelitas)

1. A female soldier during the Mexican revolution
   • 1988 July 15, David Fremon, “Look-Alike Contest”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     An employee of the city's Latino Affairs Commission, she looks like an adelita (a woman soldier and camp follower) in her blouse, long skirt, and sash crisscrossing her chest.

Translations

female soldier during the Mexican revolution

• Spanish: adelita (es) f

Spanish

Etymology

From the name Adelita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adeˈlita/ [a.ð̞eˈli.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: a‧de‧li‧ta

Noun

adelita f (plural adelitas)

1. adelita

Descendants

• → English: adelita

Further reading

• “adelita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10