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Catalan words first recorded in the 9th century

1 Catalan word whose earliest known written record dates from the 9th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. cabra

   874

   It is inherited from Latin capra (“she-goat”), the feminine of caper (“he-goat”). The same Latin word is Occitan cabra, Spanish cabra, Portuguese cabra, French chèvre, Italian capra and Romanian…

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