encomienda

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish encomienda (“grant”). === Noun === encomienda (countable and uncountable, plural encomiendas) (historical) (uncountable) A system in Spain and, later and more extensively, in Spanish colonies, in which the right to exploit the labour of certain groups of subject people (initially, Muslims, during the Reconquista) was granted to conquerors; servitude within this system. (countable) A permission to exploit labour within the encomienda system; an enterprise established to exploit such a permission. ==== See also ==== === References === William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “encomienda”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes II (D–Hoon), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.. Robert Himmerich y Valencia, The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. === Anagrams === coined name == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /enkoˈmjenda/ [ẽŋ.koˈmjẽn̪.d̪a] Rhymes: -enda Syllabification: en‧co‧mien‧da === Etymology 1 === Deverbal from encomendar. ==== Noun ==== encomienda f (plural encomiendas) parcel Synonym: paquete order encomienda ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== encomienda inflection of encomendar: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “encomienda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025