Definition of Judeo-Spanish

1. Noun. The Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script.

Exact synonyms: Ladino
Generic synonyms: Spanish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Judeo-Spanish

Judas goat
Judas goats
Judas tree
Judas trees
Judas window
Judases
Judd
Jude
Judea
Judean
Judeo-
Judeo-Christian
Judeo-Christian-Islamic
Judeo-Christianity
Judeo-Islamo-Christian
Judeo-Spanish (current term)
Judeophilia
Judeophobia
Judezmo
Judg.
Judgement Day
Judges
Judgment Day
Judica Sunday
Judie
Judith
Judith Jamison
Judkins technique
Judson
Judy

Literary usage of Judeo-Spanish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bibliotheca Wiffeniana: Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520. Their by Edward Boehmer, Benjamin Barron Wiffen (1883)
"269 registers two editions of the Old Test, in Judeo-Spanish by lier. Schaufler for ABS, the first with the Hebrew text, printed in 1843 at Vienna, ..."

2. The Jewish Communal Register of New York City, 1917-1918 by Jewish Community of New York City, Samuel Margoshes (1918)
"Judeo-Spanish The 20000 Oriental Jews in New York City maintain two weekly ... But the Jewish press in Judeo-Spanish or Ladino is even more badly situated ..."

3. Parody in Jewish Literature by Israel Davidson (1907)
"... 276; on Yiddish, N., 290 See also Periodicals Journals See Periodicals Judaeo-Spanish See Judeo-Spanish Judah Aryeh of Moden« See Modena, Leon Judah b. ..."

4. Evangelical Christendom by Evangelical Alliance (1851)
"By Spanish Jews it is meant not с | who still speak the Spanish tongue, bi | the descendants of the Spanish Jew they may not speak Judeo-Spanish. all the ..."

5. A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society by William Canton (1904)
"... and a copy of the Old Testament in Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish, procured by Pinkerton, led to the issue of a Judeo-Spanish translation of the New. ..."

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