amparo
noun
am·pa·ro
ämˈpä(ˌ)rō
plural -s
1
Spanish law : a preliminary certificate issued to a claimant of land as a protection for the claim until a survey can be had and the full title vested
2
Spanish law : a proceeding analogous to habeas corpus
Word History
Etymology
Spanish, literally, protection, from amparar to protect, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin anteparare, from Latin ante before + parare to prepare
First Known Use
1857, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- precocities
- precocity
- precocity theory
- precode
- precoded
- precodes
- precoding
- precogitate
- precogitation
- precognition
- precognitions
- precognitive
- precognize
- precognosce
- precognosced
- precognosces
- precognoscing
- precoital
- precoitally
- precollege
- precolleges
- precollegiate
- precolonial
- precombustion
- precombustion chamber