ángel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "angel"

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ángelo (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish angel, borrowed from Late Latin angelus (“messenger, angel”), or alternatively perhaps an early borrowing from Old Occitan (compare Catalan àngel, Occitan àngel) or another Gallo-Romance language, explaining the lack of a final -o; a variant dialectal form ángelo is attested, however. The Latin word itself derives from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, envoy, angel”). Compare cognate Ladino andjel and the inherited Portuguese anjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanxel/ [ˈãŋ.xel]

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• Rhymes: -anxel
• Syllabification: án‧gel

Noun

ángel m (plural ángeles)

1. angel (an incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity)
2. angel (one of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues)
3. angel (a person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness)

Derived terms

• ángel caído
• ángel de la guarda
• ángel protector
• Ángeles de Los Ángeles (“Los Angeles Angels”)
• angelito
• angelología
• angelólogo
• angelote
• cabello de ángel
• discutir sobre el sexo de los ángeles
• ha pasado un ángel
• Los Ángeles
• manjar de ángeles
• salto de ángel
• trompeta de ángel

 

Related terms

• Ángel
• angelical
• angélico
• Ángelo
• ángelus
• arcángel
• evangelio

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: anghél
• → Chibcha: angel
• → Hiligaynon: anghel
• → Inabaknon: anghel
• → Karao: anghil
• → Mezquital Otomi: ě̱nxe̱
• → O'odham: aŋhil
• → Quechua: anqil
• → Tagalog: anghel
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: öngel
• → Waray-Waray: anghel
• → Yucatec Maya: ángel
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: angl

Further reading

• “ángel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• angel

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ángel.

Noun

ángel (plural ángeloʼob)

1. angel
   • 1782, Juan Josef Hoil, Chilam Balam of Chumayel; republished as Richard N. Luxton, transl., The Book of Chumayel: The Counsel Book of the Yucatec Maya, 1539-1638, Aegean Park Press, 1995:

     Ca tun u sihsah Angelob / Heuac chacannili ti Dios binili / Sipic angelobe tan has tze.

     Then He engendered the angels. / However, it appeared that God came. / To accuse half the angels of sinning.

   • 1992, “Apocalipsis 9:14”, in Biblia Maya de Yucatán:

     Le tʼaanoʼ tu yaʼalaj tiʼ le sexto ángeloʼ máax tiʼ yaan le trompetaeʼ: Wachʼ le can túul ángeloʼob kaxaʼanoʼob tu tzéel le nojoch áalcab jaʼ Éufratesoʼ.

     Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. (KJV, Revelation 9:14)