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[td]== The ship's nickname of "''Cagafuego''" ==[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción'' was reportedly nicknamed ''Cagafuego'', meaning "shitfire" (or "fireshitter"), by her Spanish sailors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana "Benjamín Carrión." Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía |title=Historia y espacio: anuario de la Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Tema 1 |date=1999 |publisher=Letramía Editorial |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3HrAAAAMAAJ&q="Nuestra+Señora+de+la+Concepción"+"cagafuego" |access-date=21 September 2021}}</ref> The [[Early Modern Spanish]] verb ''caca'' "defecate" was derived from the Latin ''cacare''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=cagar|title = Cagar | Diccionario de la lengua española}}</ref> (''Caca'' mutated into ''caga'' in modern Spanish and the formation "shitfire" into "''cagafuego''".)[/td]
[td]''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción'' was reportedly nicknamed ''Cagafuego'', meaning "shitfire" (or "fireshitter"), by her Spanish sailors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana "Benjamín Carrión." Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía |title=Historia y espacio: anuario de la Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Tema 1 |date=1999 |publisher=Letramía Editorial |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3HrAAAAMAAJ&q="Nuestra+Señora+de+la+Concepción"+"cagafuego" |access-date=21 September 2021}}</ref> The [[Early Modern Spanish]] verb ''caca'' "defecate" was derived from the Latin ''cacare''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=cagar|title = Cagar | Diccionario de la lengua española}}</ref> ''Caca'' then mutated into ''caga'' in modern Spanish and the formation "shitfire" into "''cagafuego''".[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]There was a contemporaneous [[cognate]] in the [[Florentine dialect|Florentine Italian dialect]]: ''cacafuoco'', meaning "handgun".<ref name="etymonline">[https://www.etymonline.com/word/spitfire ''Online Etymology Dictionary'', 2001–2017, "spitfire (n.)" (18 December 2017). ]</ref> From about 1600, the word spitfire was used in English, initially as an alternative term for "cannon".<ref name="etymonline"/> Spitfire may have originated as a [[minced oath|minced]] [[calque]] of ''cacafuoco'',<ref name="etymonline"/> although a [[folk etymology]] has long claimed that it originated as ''cagafuego'', in reference to ''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción''. In the 1670s, spitfire acquired the additional meaning of an "irascible, passionate person". In 1776, the British [[Royal Navy]] commissioned the first of more than 10 vessels named [[HMS Spitfire|HMS ''Spitfire'']]. Since the late 1930s, however, the word has been more famously associated with the [[Supermarine Spitfire]] fighter aircraft and the [[Mexican Spitfire (film series)|''Mexican Spitfire'' film series]], starring [[Lupe Vélez]].[/td]
[td]There was a contemporaneous [[cognate]] in the [[Florentine dialect|Florentine Italian dialect]]: ''cacafuoco'', meaning "handgun".<ref name="etymonline">[https://www.etymonline.com/word/spitfire ''Online Etymology Dictionary'', 2001–2017, "spitfire (n.)" (18 December 2017). ]</ref> From about 1600, the word spitfire was used in English, initially as an alternative term for "cannon".<ref name="etymonline"/> Spitfire may have originated as a [[minced oath|minced]] [[calque]] of ''cacafuoco'',<ref name="etymonline"/> although a [[folk etymology]] has long claimed that it originated as ''cagafuego'', in reference to ''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción''. In the 1670s, spitfire acquired the additional meaning of an "irascible, passionate person". In 1776, the British [[Royal Navy]] commissioned the first of more than 10 vessels named [[HMS Spitfire|HMS ''Spitfire'']]. Since the late 1930s, however, the word has been more famously associated with the [[Supermarine Spitfire]] fighter aircraft and the [[Mexican Spitfire (film series)|''Mexican Spitfire'' film series]], starring [[Lupe Vélez]].[/td]
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[td][/td] [td]''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción'' was reportedly nicknamed ''Cagafuego'', meaning "shitfire" (or "fireshitter"), by her Spanish sailors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana "Benjamín Carrión." Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía |title=Historia y espacio: anuario de la Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Tema 1 |date=1999 |publisher=Letramía Editorial |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3HrAAAAMAAJ&q="Nuestra+Señora+de+la+Concepción"+"cagafuego" |access-date=21 September 2021}}</ref> The [[Early Modern Spanish]] verb ''caca'' "defecate" was derived from the Latin ''cacare''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=cagar|title = Cagar | Diccionario de la lengua española}}</ref> (''Caca'' mutated into ''caga'' in modern Spanish and the formation "shitfire" into "''cagafuego''".)[/td]
[td]''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción'' was reportedly nicknamed ''Cagafuego'', meaning "shitfire" (or "fireshitter"), by her Spanish sailors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana "Benjamín Carrión." Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía |title=Historia y espacio: anuario de la Sección Académica de Historia y Geografía, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Tema 1 |date=1999 |publisher=Letramía Editorial |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3HrAAAAMAAJ&q="Nuestra+Señora+de+la+Concepción"+"cagafuego" |access-date=21 September 2021}}</ref> The [[Early Modern Spanish]] verb ''caca'' "defecate" was derived from the Latin ''cacare''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=cagar|title = Cagar | Diccionario de la lengua española}}</ref> ''Caca'' then mutated into ''caga'' in modern Spanish and the formation "shitfire" into "''cagafuego''".[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]There was a contemporaneous [[cognate]] in the [[Florentine dialect|Florentine Italian dialect]]: ''cacafuoco'', meaning "handgun".<ref name="etymonline">[https://www.etymonline.com/word/spitfire ''Online Etymology Dictionary'', 2001–2017, "spitfire (n.)" (18 December 2017). ]</ref> From about 1600, the word spitfire was used in English, initially as an alternative term for "cannon".<ref name="etymonline"/> Spitfire may have originated as a [[minced oath|minced]] [[calque]] of ''cacafuoco'',<ref name="etymonline"/> although a [[folk etymology]] has long claimed that it originated as ''cagafuego'', in reference to ''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción''. In the 1670s, spitfire acquired the additional meaning of an "irascible, passionate person". In 1776, the British [[Royal Navy]] commissioned the first of more than 10 vessels named [[HMS Spitfire|HMS ''Spitfire'']]. Since the late 1930s, however, the word has been more famously associated with the [[Supermarine Spitfire]] fighter aircraft and the [[Mexican Spitfire (film series)|''Mexican Spitfire'' film series]], starring [[Lupe Vélez]].[/td]
[td]There was a contemporaneous [[cognate]] in the [[Florentine dialect|Florentine Italian dialect]]: ''cacafuoco'', meaning "handgun".<ref name="etymonline">[https://www.etymonline.com/word/spitfire ''Online Etymology Dictionary'', 2001–2017, "spitfire (n.)" (18 December 2017). ]</ref> From about 1600, the word spitfire was used in English, initially as an alternative term for "cannon".<ref name="etymonline"/> Spitfire may have originated as a [[minced oath|minced]] [[calque]] of ''cacafuoco'',<ref name="etymonline"/> although a [[folk etymology]] has long claimed that it originated as ''cagafuego'', in reference to ''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción''. In the 1670s, spitfire acquired the additional meaning of an "irascible, passionate person". In 1776, the British [[Royal Navy]] commissioned the first of more than 10 vessels named [[HMS Spitfire|HMS ''Spitfire'']]. Since the late 1930s, however, the word has been more famously associated with the [[Supermarine Spitfire]] fighter aircraft and the [[Mexican Spitfire (film series)|''Mexican Spitfire'' film series]], starring [[Lupe Vélez]].[/td]
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