Californio
/ˌkælɪˈfɔː(ɹ)ni.oʊ/noun
Californio is a noun meaning “A Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Californian living in California before the Mexican–American War” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-O, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Californio is Californios.
What does Californio mean?
noun
- 1
A Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Californian living in California before the Mexican–American War.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Californio?
- /ˌkælɪˈfɔː(ɹ)ni.oʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Californio
- Californios plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Californio?
Californio appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Californio come from?
Historic and regional Spanish californio (“Californian”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).