{"id":16450,"date":"2018-02-28T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16450"},"modified":"2018-02-20T20:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T04:05:01","slug":"hidalgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/02\/28\/hidalgo\/","title":{"rendered":"hidalgo"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve encountered the term <i>hidalgo<\/i> in various contexts; it refers to Spanish or Portuguese nobility. The thing that surprised me about that term is the etymology: it\u2019s from Old Spanish <i>fijo dalgo<\/i>, literally meaning \u201cson of something.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hidalgo_(nobility)\">suggests<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>In the Spanish language of that period, in the phrase <i>Hijo de algo<\/i>, the word <i>algo<\/i> (\"something\") denotes \"riches\"[\u2026]<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\u2026but like the other etymologies on that page, that claim about \u201csomething\u201d specifically meaning \u201criches\u201d is without attribution, so take that part with a grain of salt. But the <i>fijo dalgo<\/i> etymology is from MW11, so I trust that part.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17064,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16450\/revisions\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}