entrada

Forms

entrada f (plural entradas)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Spanish entrar + -ada, as the noun of action and place of the verb.^[1][2][3] Wikcionario explains it as the feminine of the participle entrado.^[4] The verb is inherited from Latin intrāre (“to enter”), a derivative of the adverb of the same form, “inside”, from inter (“between”).^[5][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Corominas cites a document of 1100 and the Cantar de mio Cid as the first records; the BDELC gives c. 1140.^[5][3] A charter from Huesca has the form intrada as early as 867.^[7] The Cid uses it in the formula las exidas e las entradas “the ways out and the ways in”, that is, the whole territory of a place, and charters of the 13th century grant land con entradas & con salidas “with rights of entry and exit”.^[8][9]

Semantic evolution

Old Spanish already used entrada for the place one goes in by, for the act of entering, and in Alfonso X's laws for admission to a sacrament or a body and for an opening or opportunity.^[10] Covarrubias (1611) adds the senses “favour, familiarity in a house” and, of the head, the receding sides of the hairline.^[11] In the conquest of the Americas an entrada was a raid or expedition into Indian territory;^[12][13] Las Casas explains it as going to seize Indians in other provinces.^[12][13]

The theatre senses came later: in 1817 the Academy recorded the audience of a performance (hubo una grande entrada), and in 1869 the takings and the ticket.^[14][15] In Mexico, Cuba and the Canaries una entrada de palos is a beating, and in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean entrada is an inning in baseball.^[16][17][18]

Timeline

• 867 – intrada in a charter from Huesca.^[7]
• 1100 – the first record in Spanish, according to Corominas.^[5]
• c. 1140 – the Cantar de mio Cid has las exidas e las entradas.^[3][9]
• 1250–1279 – Alfonso X's Lapidario describes the narrow entrance of a cave on Mount Sinai.^[10]
• c. 1495 – Nebrija gives Latin ingressio, aditus and introitus.^[19]
• 1515 – the first record in the Americas, of a raid in Tierra Firme.^[13]
• 1611 – Covarrubias records the sense “favour, access to a house”.^[11]
• 1869 – the Academy records the ticket and the takings of a theatre.^[15]

Meanings

Noun

1. An entrance: the place by which one goes into somewhere.^[20][1]
2. The act of entering; entry.^[20][1]
3. Admission to a council, community or religious order, or the taking up of an office or dignity.^[20]
4. The hall or room next to the front door of a house or hotel.^[20]
5. Opportunity or occasion to do something; possibility of being admitted.^[20]
6. A ticket for a show, an exhibition or a match; the audience at a paid show; the takings from the tickets.^[20][1]
7. The beginning of a work, such as a speech or a book.^[20]
8. Friendship, favour or familiarity in a house or with a person.^[20]
9. (card games) In tresillo and similar games, the act of playing against the others after naming the trump suit; the cards kept for it.^[20]
10. A starter dish served before the main course.^[21][1]
11. (in the plural) The receding hairline at the temples.^[11][1]
12. (Mexico, Central America, Caribbean) An inning in baseball.^[18]
13. (Mexico, Cuba, Canaries) A beating: una entrada de palos.^[16][17]

Related words

• entrar
• salida
• Latin intro

Usage notes

De entrada means “from the start, straight away”.^[1][22] The DLE's second headword entrada is only the feminine of the participle entrado.^[20]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ Gómez de Silva, Guido (1988), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica / El Colegio de México, p. s.v. entrada
3. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. entrar
4. ^ Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org
5. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 2, 644
6. ^ Lleal, Coloma (dir.), DICCA-XV: Diccionario del castellano del siglo XV en la Corona de Aragón, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Grup d'Estudis d'Història de la Llengua (GHCL), https://ghcl.ub.edu/diccaxv, p. s.v. entrada
7. ^ a b Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel), data publication 2026 (CC BY-SA), Universität Rostock, p. s.v. entrada
8. ^ Boggs, R. S.; Kasten, Lloyd; Keniston, Hayward; Richardson, H. B. (1946), Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, 2 vols., Chapel Hill, N.C., p. 223
9. ^ a b Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. entrada
10. ^ a b Kasten, Lloyd A.; Nitti, John J.; Gago Jover, Francisco (2002–), Diccionario de la prosa castellana del Rey Alfonso X, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (electronic edition 2024), p. s.v. entrada
11. ^ a b c Covarrubias Orozco, Sebastián de (1611), Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española, Madrid: Luis Sánchez (Biblioteca Wordkers transcription, CC BY 4.0), p. 749
12. ^ a b Grupo IATEXT, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, AMERLEX: corpus of americanisms in early texts on the Americas (online database), p. s.v. entrada
13. ^ a b c Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. entrada
14. ^ Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real, p. 368
15. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1869), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 11th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de Don Manuel Rivadeneyra, p. 316
16. ^ a b Santamaría, Francisco J. (1942), Diccionario general de americanismos, 3 vols., México: Pedro Robredo, p. 612
17. ^ a b Academia Canaria de la Lengua (2010), Diccionario básico de canarismos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife; online at https://www.academiacanarialengua.org, p. s.v. entrada
18. ^ a b Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2010), Diccionario de americanismos, Lima: Santillana; online at https://www.asale.org/damer, p. s.v. entrada
19. ^ Nebrija, Antonio de (1513), Vocabulario español-latino, Salamanca, ed. Marina Vidal Díez (2007), Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, p. 346
20. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. entrada
21. ^ Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. entrada
22. ^ Nehama, Joseph (1977), Dictionnaire du judéo-espagnol, Madrid: CSIC, p. s.v. entrada