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Spanish words from Latin words first recorded in the 8th century

2 Spanish words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 8th century, earliest Latin record first.

1. fuerza

   763–764

   from Latin fortia

   It is inherited from Late Latin fortia (“strength”). Old Spanish wrote fuerça. The Late Latin noun, found from the 2nd century in Commodian and Firmicus Maternus, replaced classical vīs in all the…

2. botija

   800–899

   from Latin butticula

   It is inherited from Late Latin butticula, a diminutive of buttis (“cask”). The Latin word is found as early as the Tironian notes. Niermeyer records it in Medieval Latin, with the variants…

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