Wikipedia:WikiProject Spain/Glossary

This page is associated with WikiProject Spain. It is currently under construction. It is an attempt to identify terms—especially official terms—that come up a lot in articles about Spain, and to come up with suggested translations into English.

At present this is, at best, a draft. Help in fleshing it out would be greatly appreciated.

Historic regimes
(Markup: "Liberal Trienium" (Trienio Liberal) )
 * Antiguo Régimen: "Ancien Régime" (Antiguo Régimen)
 * Trienio Liberal: "Liberal Trienium" (Trienio Liberal)

Political geography
(Markup: autonomous community ) (Markup: municipality ) (Markup: province ) (Markup: historic region ) More precisely, it is a town with a charter that is not a ciudad
 * aldea: village, hamlet
 * caserío: hamlet
 * ciudad: city; (alt.) chartered city, town
 * comarca: comarca
 * comunidad autónoma: autonomous community
 * municipio: municipality
 * pedanía: hamlet, district (depending on the context)
 * provincia: province
 * pueblo: village or small town
 * región histórica: in the sense used in the 1833 territorial division of Spain: historic region
 * villa / vila: town

Protected natural spaces
That's literal, but I'm not sure it corresponds to how it is used in present-day Spain - Jmabel | Talk (Markup: natural park )
 * coto nacional de caza: national hunting reserve
 * dehesa boyal: cow pasture
 * Monte Público: public land, common land
 * monumento natural: natural monument
 * paisaje protegido: prtotected landscape
 * parque nacional: national park
 * parque natural: natural park
 * paraje natural: natural site
 * reserva natural: nature reserve

Historic/artistic heritage
Bien de interés cultural is a general term; it includes more specific categories, such as monumento. If you read Spanish, es:Bien de interés cultural is informative about historic monuments etc, but hasn't got much to say about how es:Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (intangible cultural heritage in English) can be protected as bienes.

(Markup: Monumento nacional )
 * Conjunto Histórico: Historic Group of Buildings
 * Conjunto Artístico:
 * Conjunto Histórico Artístico:
 * Jardín Histórico: Historic Garden
 * Monumento
 * Monumento Nacional: Monumento nacional
 * Monumento Histórico-Artístico de Interés Nacional: Historical-Artistic Monument of National Interest
 * Sitio Histórico: Historic Site
 * Zona Arqueológica: Archeological zone


 * Fiestas de Interés Turístico Nacional: Festival of National Touristic Interest


 * Patrimonio Histórico:
 * Patrimonio Nacional

Buildings

 * ermita: chapel, sanctuary, chancel, little/small church, little/small shrine

Legal terms
(Markup: Organic Law
 * Ley Orgánico: Organic Law

Governmental bodies

 * ayuntamiento: Town hall or local government (depending on the context)
 * Cortes Generales: Cortes Generales
 * Diputación de provincia:
 * Junta de comunidad autónoma: Foo autonomous government (e.g. Andalusian Autonomous Government)
 * Partido: legal district (not to be confused with partido in the sense of political party); see also judicial district, an equivalent term with greater currency in North America.

Political parties
(Markup: United Left (Izquierda Unida, IU) or United Left or leftist IU ) (Markup: People's Party (Partido Popular, PP) or People's Party or right-of-center PP ) (Markup: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) or Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) or left-of-center PSOE ) Second case handled slightly differently from the others because in Spanish it is nearly universally referred to only by its initials. (Markup: Confederation of the Greens (Confederación de los Verdes) or Confederation of the Greens ((Los Verdes) )
 * IU or Izquierda Unida: United Left (Izquierda Unida, IU) or United Left or leftist IU
 * PP or Partido Popular: People's Party (Partido Popular, PP) or People's Party or right-of-center PP
 * PSOE: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) or Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) or left-of-center PSOE
 * Los Verdes: Confederation of the Greens (Confederación de los Verdes) or (Los Verdes)

Honorifics

 * Beneméritos de la Patria: (an honorific title; "Beneméritos" means "meritorious" and functions here as an adjectival noun)

Culture events and issues

 * Castillo (pirotecnia): Pyrotecnic structure which is arranged with the aim to cause several figure, effects, colour lights, etc. It is typical in Spanish festivities. This expression is not usually translated into English and a translation propose can be simply 'firework display'.


 * Chupinazo : An act which is carried out for opening a festivity and that consists in a rocket set off.


 * Paella : Apart from being a typical dish, this name is also used to mass paella eating events. When this name is used in a massive universitary people event, it is not necessary the presence of the dish and it is usually a massive people event with food and drink stand and concerts.