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Cacique
| Words in English from Amerindian Languages |
Arawak kassequa 'chief'
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Cacomistle, английский
Nahuatl tlacomiztli
Buccaneer, английский
- Tupi mocaen 'grill for frying or curing meat'
- A name given to certain piratical rovers, of various european nations, who formerly infested the coasts of spanish america. they were originally inoffensive settlers in hispaniola, but were inhumanly driven from their habitations by the jealous policy of the spaniards; whence originated their implacable hatred to that nation. also, a large musketoon, about 8 feet in length, so called from having been used by those marauders.
- Specifically refers to a pirate operating in the caribbean during the so-called “golden age” (1680–1730). sometimes incorrectly used as a generic term for any pirate. see boucanier.
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