filibustero
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]filibustero m (plural filibusteros, feminine filibustera, feminine plural filibusteras)
- pirate, plunderer, freebooter
- 2003, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Morgan y los piratas, El Nacional, →ISBN:
- El gobernador inglés de Jamaica concede patente de corso a los filibusteros, principalmente para que ataquen a las colonias españolas: atacan Costa Rica y Tobago.
- The English governor of Jamaica grants the plunderers letter of marque, mainly for them to attack Spanish colonies: they attack Costa Rica and Tobago.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: filibuster
- → Chinese: 費力把事拖 / 费力把事拖 (fèilìbǎshìtuō)
- → Dutch: filibuster
- → Indonesian: filibuster
Further reading
[edit]- “filibustero”, 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
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