Handbook for translators of Spanish historical ... - University Library

SPECIAL AIDS
pesca de pieles — fur hunting
pie de lista — muster roll
pierna de guangoche — tow sack
presidial — presidial soldier
practice — expert
preguntas generales — the first and last questions
asked in every interrogatory, called "generales"
because they are always the ssune
preguntas utiles — questions regarding the case under
consideration
propiedad — copyrighted
pujos de sangre — dysentery
rayadillo — a striped cotton fabric
recua — packtrain
resultar reo — to he found guilty
salta atrds — child of a white family who has negro
characteristics (a "throwback")
semita — small round loaf of bread
sindico procurador — attorney-general of a town or
corporation
s"uinaria — indictment
tente por el aire — child of a calpdn mulata and a
zambo
tierra de pan coger — dry-farming land
tierra de pan sembarar — wheatfield
torna atrds — child of a white family who has negro
characteristics (same as salta atr^s )
totear — to sick a dog
traqueado — covered with tracks
venir que ni de — to be better than
viene que ni de molde — is better than in print
villa — town that enjoys peculiar privileges by
charter
Vuestra Senorfa — Your Lordship (By royal order this
title was applied to any officer or corporation
empowered to issue commissions in the royal service.)
zambo — child of a cambuj and an Indian woman
zambo prieto — child of a negro and a zamba
3. Abbreviations, a. Classification of abbreviations.
There are three general signs of an abbreviation in Spanish;
the period, the dash, and superscript letters: In more
modern documents, especially commercial correspondence, the
dash has sometimes been modified to the slant (/) on the
typewriter. Abbreviations are formed in the following ways:
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