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Bogotazo

Spanish, noun/boɡoˈtaθo/

Bogotazo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Bogotazo (the riots that followed the 1948 assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Bogotazo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineBogotazo (the riots that followed the 1948 assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán)

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of Bogotazo

  • Bogotazos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Bogotazo?

  • /boɡoˈtaθo/
  • [bo.ɣ̞oˈt̪a.θo]
  • /boɡoˈtaso/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Bogotazo in Spanish?

Bogotazo appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).