"Morisco" meaning in English

See Morisco in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /məˈrɪskəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|morisco|t=Moorish}} Spanish morisco (“Moorish”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Morisco
  1. The Moorish language.
    Sense id: en-Morisco-en-name-KUmFGG2C

Noun

IPA: /məˈrɪskəʊ/ Forms: Moriscos [plural], Moriscoes [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|morisco|t=Moorish}} Spanish morisco (“Moorish”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|es}} Morisco (plural Moriscos or Moriscoes)
  1. (historical) A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-Morisco-en-noun-veWJVk4W
  2. (architecture) The Moorish style of architecture. Categories (topical): Architecture
    Sense id: en-Morisco-en-noun-Sk0BfXzc Topics: architecture
  3. (dance, obsolete) The morris dance. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Dance
    Sense id: en-Morisco-en-noun-VlcmrxUo Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  4. (dance, obsolete) A morris dancer. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Dance Synonyms: Moresco
    Sense id: en-Morisco-en-noun-qJBnIxik Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 4 1 16 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 10 11 1 18 60 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 7 1 16 69 Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "morisco",
        "t": "Moorish"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish morisco (“Moorish”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Moriscos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Moriscoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "es"
      },
      "expansion": "Morisco (plural Moriscos or Moriscoes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Henry Charles Lea, The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion, page 285:",
          "text": "In May, 1600, the Count of Benavente, then viceroy of Valencia, was ordered to report whether the Moriscos of that kingdom had any intelligence with France.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Trevor J. Dadson, Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain: Old Christians and Moriscos in the Campo de Calatrava, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 123:",
          "text": "It is not uncommon for the reader of many histories of the expulsion of the Moriscos, both those written at the time and more modern ones, to be left with the impression that the expulsion was an enterprise carried out without opposition, an act accepted both by the Moriscos, who directly suffered from it, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity."
      ],
      "id": "en-Morisco-en-noun-veWJVk4W",
      "links": [
        [
          "Moor",
          "Moor"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Architecture",
          "orig": "en:Architecture",
          "parents": [
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, W. Eugene George, Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "Ambrosio de Letinez, a fictitious hero of the early nineteenth century, accurately described the typical architecture of northern Mexico: “The style of building is the Morisco … throughout … Mexico; that is to say, the houses are almost universally one story high, with flat terrace roofs and few windows to the street. […]”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Moorish style of architecture."
      ],
      "id": "en-Morisco-en-noun-Sk0BfXzc",
      "links": [
        [
          "architecture",
          "architecture"
        ],
        [
          "Moorish",
          "Moorish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(architecture) The Moorish style of architecture."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "architecture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dance",
          "orig": "en:Dance",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1601, John Marston, What You Will, act 4, scene 1:",
          "text": "Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The morris dance."
      ],
      "id": "en-Morisco-en-noun-VlcmrxUo",
      "links": [
        [
          "dance",
          "dance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "morris dance",
          "morris dance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dance, obsolete) The morris dance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dance",
        "dancing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dance",
          "orig": "en:Dance",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 4 1 16 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 11 1 18 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 7 1 16 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 3, scene 1:",
          "text": "I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A morris dancer."
      ],
      "id": "en-Morisco-en-noun-qJBnIxik",
      "links": [
        [
          "dance",
          "dance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "morris dancer",
          "morris dancer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dance, obsolete) A morris dancer."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 0 16 65 15",
          "word": "Moresco"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dance",
        "dancing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈrɪskəʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Morisco"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "morisco",
        "t": "Moorish"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish morisco (“Moorish”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Morisco",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Robert J. Di Pietro, William Frawley, Alfred Wedel, Selected Papers, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 69:",
          "text": "But what makes him different from other comic figures are his Moorish customs and his Morisco dialect.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, J. N. Hillgarth, The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700: The Formation of a Myth, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 81:",
          "text": "As well as noting the existence of a language different from Castilian in Valencia and Catalonia, he discusses Basque at some length, refers to the “Morisco” spoken in the Alpujarras near Granada, and is probably the first foreigner to mention a group that can be identified with the Mauregatos.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Moorish language."
      ],
      "id": "en-Morisco-en-name-KUmFGG2C",
      "links": [
        [
          "Moorish",
          "Moorish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈrɪskəʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Morisco"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Spanish",
    "English terms derived from Spanish",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "morisco",
        "t": "Moorish"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish morisco (“Moorish”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Moriscos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Moriscoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "es"
      },
      "expansion": "Morisco (plural Moriscos or Moriscoes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Henry Charles Lea, The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion, page 285:",
          "text": "In May, 1600, the Count of Benavente, then viceroy of Valencia, was ordered to report whether the Moriscos of that kingdom had any intelligence with France.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Trevor J. Dadson, Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain: Old Christians and Moriscos in the Campo de Calatrava, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 123:",
          "text": "It is not uncommon for the reader of many histories of the expulsion of the Moriscos, both those written at the time and more modern ones, to be left with the impression that the expulsion was an enterprise carried out without opposition, an act accepted both by the Moriscos, who directly suffered from it, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Moor",
          "Moor"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Architecture"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, W. Eugene George, Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "Ambrosio de Letinez, a fictitious hero of the early nineteenth century, accurately described the typical architecture of northern Mexico: “The style of building is the Morisco … throughout … Mexico; that is to say, the houses are almost universally one story high, with flat terrace roofs and few windows to the street. […]”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Moorish style of architecture."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "architecture",
          "architecture"
        ],
        [
          "Moorish",
          "Moorish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(architecture) The Moorish style of architecture."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "architecture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Dance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1601, John Marston, What You Will, act 4, scene 1:",
          "text": "Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The morris dance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dance",
          "dance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "morris dance",
          "morris dance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dance, obsolete) The morris dance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dance",
        "dancing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Dance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 3, scene 1:",
          "text": "I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A morris dancer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dance",
          "dance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "morris dancer",
          "morris dancer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dance, obsolete) A morris dancer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dance",
        "dancing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈrɪskəʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Moresco"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Morisco"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Spanish",
    "English terms derived from Spanish",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "morisco",
        "t": "Moorish"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish morisco (“Moorish”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Morisco",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Robert J. Di Pietro, William Frawley, Alfred Wedel, Selected Papers, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 69:",
          "text": "But what makes him different from other comic figures are his Moorish customs and his Morisco dialect.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, J. N. Hillgarth, The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700: The Formation of a Myth, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 81:",
          "text": "As well as noting the existence of a language different from Castilian in Valencia and Catalonia, he discusses Basque at some length, refers to the “Morisco” spoken in the Alpujarras near Granada, and is probably the first foreigner to mention a group that can be identified with the Mauregatos.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Moorish language."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Moorish",
          "Moorish"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈrɪskəʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Moresco"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Morisco"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Morisco meaning in English (5.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.