Noun: hidalgo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: hi‧dal‧go
| Singular m | hidalgo |
| Singular f | hidalga |
| Plural m | hidalgos |
| Plural f | hidalgas |
Sample Sentences
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En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. (In a village of La Mancha, of whose name I don't want to remember, lived, not long ago, a nobleman, of the type with a lance on the rack, an antique rondache, a meagre horse and a hunting hound.) [1605, Miguel de Cervantes, chapter I, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha [ The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha], Primera parte, Madrid: Imprenta de Juan de la Cuesta:]
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hacer un hidalgo (chug (a beer or other alcoholic drink))
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tomar una bebida de hidalgo (guzzle down a drink)
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el año de Hidalgo (final year in office, lame duck year)
Nouns inflected like hidalgo
botellero,
paletero,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
gibareño,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
evacuado,
subprefecto,
miliciano,
gibelino,
moguereño,
angloamericano,
sereno,
serbio,
gregario,
seboso,
sedero,
cristiano,
babilonio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish fidalgo, contracted from the also-attested fijo d'algo (literally “son of something”). Compare Portuguese and Galician fidalgo. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
fidalgo', Old Spanish Nouns '
fidalgo'.
Verbs referencing "hidalgo"
English Nouns
hidalgo, French Nouns
hidalgo, Italian Nouns
hidalgo, Portuguese Nouns
fidalgo.
Translations