población
See also: poblacion
Asturian
editEtymology
editFormed from poblar + -ción, or a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin populātiō, populātiōnem from Latin populus (“people”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpoblación f (plural poblaciones)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “población”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
- “población”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
Spanish
editEtymology
editFormed from poblar + -ción, or a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin populātiōnem from Latin populus (“people”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /poblaˈθjon/ [po.β̞laˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /poblaˈsjon/ [po.β̞laˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Mexico): (file) Audio (Colombia); [po.β̞laˈsjõŋ]: (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: po‧bla‧ción
Noun
editpoblación f (plural poblaciones)
- population (of a geographical region, a country, etc.)
- town, village
- (Chile) a low to middle-class neighborhood, usually in the periphery of a city or borough; a slum
- Synonym: pobla
- (Philippines) a town center, or the barangay where one is located
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Tagalog: poblasyon
Further reading
edit- “población”, 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
- “población”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
- Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “población”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
Categories:
- Asturian terms suffixed with -ción
- Asturian terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Asturian semi-learned borrowings from Late Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Late Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Asturian/on
- Rhymes:Asturian/on/3 syllables
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ción
- Spanish terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Spanish semi-learned borrowings from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Chilean Spanish
- Philippine Spanish