duende

Spanish duende and (especially in reference to Portuguese or Brazilian folklore) Portuguese duende. Doublet of duwende.

duende (plural duendes)

1. A small, mischievous humanoid creature in Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Latin American, and Philippine folklore/mythology; an imp.
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:duende.

• Dundee, denude, dudeen, endued

Borrowed from Spanish duende, from Old Spanish duen de casa (“house master”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /duˈẽ.d͡ʒi/, /ˈdwẽ.d͡ʒi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /duˈẽ.de/, /ˈdwẽ.de/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /duˈẽ.dɨ/, /ˈdwẽ.dɨ/

duende m (plural duendes)

1. (Iberian folklore) a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents
2. (by extension, fiction) any small fictional humanoid, especially a mischievous or evil one

• trasgo

• This term is commonly used in fiction to translate the name of various creatures such as imps, gnomes and goblins.

From Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). See more at dueño.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdwen.de/, [ˈd̪wẽ̞n̪d̪e̞]
• Hyphenation: duen‧de

duende m (plural duendes)

1. (Iberian folklore) a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents
   • (Can we date this quote?), Raquel Cachafeiro Gil, El Duende de la Navidad, →ISBN, page 4:

     El duende de la Navidad vive en las ramas del manzano, pasa el tiempo subiendo y bajando, atareado con unir la luz del sol a la tierra y otras tareas similares. Cada año, en el invierno, se asoma a las ramas y mira a las estrellas y ve caer la […]

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2. (by extension, fiction) elf, imp

   Synonyms: elfo, hada, gnomo

3. (by extension) charisma (the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm)

   Synonym: carisma

4. (by extension) charm, magic

   Synonyms: encanto, embrujo, magia

• duendecillo

• trasgo

• → Cebuano: dewende
• → Chamorro: duendes
• → English: duende
• → Portuguese: duende
• → Russian: дуэ́нде (duénde)
• → Tagalog: duwende
  • → English: duwende
• → Ukrainian: дуе́нде (duénde)

• “duende” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.