The word "Spaniard" comes from the Latin word Hispanus, which in turn is derived from the Phoenician word shpny.
shpny likely refers to the Iberian Peninsula's "land of rabbits" or "land of hyraxes".
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The Phoenicians, a seafaring people from what is now Lebanon, established trading colonies along the Mediterranean coast of Spain in the 10th century BCE. They called the Iberian Peninsula shpny, which later became Hispania in Latin.
After the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BCE, the name Hispania was used to refer to the Roman province that covered much of the peninsula.
Hispanus (Spaniard) was the Latin term for the inhabitants of this province. When the Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century CE, the term Hispanus continued to be used to refer to the people living in the former Roman province.
Over time, the term evolved into the modern word Spaniard.
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