Salvadoran
noun
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Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós Proto-Italic *salawos Latin salvus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin salvō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin salvātōrem Old Spanish salvador Spanish salvador Spanish Salvadorbor. ▲ Latin salvātōrem Old Galician-Portuguese salvador Portuguese salvador Portuguese Salvadorbor. English Salvador Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Salvadoran From Salvador + -an.
- Of, from, or pertaining to El Salvador or the Salvadoran people.
“People will fill the plazas of the country tumultuously, like a river in the rainy season, to pay tribute to these brothers of ours who died for the sake of peace, to these brothers who were born in Spain but were more Salvadoran than their assassins, that pack of criminals with no patriotism in their hearts.”
“I’d been pushing some shopping carts around the grocery store’s parking lot with a coworker, a guy named Rafa, a big Salvadoran dude.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós Proto-Italic *salawos Latin salvus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin salvō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin salvātōrem Old Spanish salvador Spanish salvador Spanish Salvadorbor. ▲ Latin salvātōrem Old Galician-Portuguese salvador Portuguese salvador Portuguese Salvadorbor. English Salvador Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Salvadoran From Salvador + -an.
- A person from El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
“Under Biden, a Trump-era decision to end TPS for Salvadorans was rescinded after a group of Latino officials pleaded with the outgoing president to continue TPS for people from those countries with “meritorious cases,” citing “horrific levels of violence that surged in recent years” in Ecuador, along with the oppression of the Ortega regime that has controlled Nicaragua for decades and “political and environmental conditions” in El Salvador.”