Spanish words first recorded in the 14th century

It is borrowed from Latin fingō (“to knead; to shape; to invent”), a learned word. The inherited outcome of the same Latin verb is heñir “to knead”. A Latin charter of León of 1020 already uses…

It is borrowed from French nord (“north”), which is from Old English norþ (“north”). Corominas and the Breve diccionario take it from Old English, probably through French. The Old French word is…

It is inherited from Old Spanish exército, borrowed from Latin exercitus (“physical exercise; army”), a learned word. The DCECH explains the Latin noun as properly “a body of men trained for war”…

It is borrowed from French maille, from Latin macula (“spot; mesh of a net”). Wiktionary gives the chain through Old Spanish malla, Old French maille and Vulgar Latin *macla. The Castilian form of…

It is borrowed from Latin resolvō (“to loosen, undo; to dissolve”), a learned word like the rest of the Spanish family of solvō (“to loosen”). Wiktionary notes that it was already a learned…

It is borrowed from Latin sociālis (“of a companion or partner; of allies; social”). Corominas, who dates it only from the Academy's dictionary of 1817, says it came by way of French social, a word…

It is probably borrowed from Medieval Latin artista (“student or master of the liberal arts”), which Gómez de Silva derives from ars (“skill, art”) and the agent suffix. Bénaben and Vox allow that…

It is a learned borrowing, borrowed from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forward, bring forth; to beget”). The Latin verb is formed with prō- (“forward”) on dūcō (“to lead”). Corominas lists it among the…

It is formed from Spanish re- + unir “to join again”. unir is a learned borrowing of Late Latin ūniō (“to unite”), from ūnus (“one”). Gómez de Silva traces the Spanish verb to Medieval Latin reūniō…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis (“entire, total”), from Latin tōtus (“whole, all”) and -ālis. The popular descendant of the Latin adjective is todo, under which Corominas treats it. The…

It is borrowed from Latin cōnsīderō (“to examine attentively”), a learned word. The same Latin verb gave popular forms elsewhere: Catalan consirar, Aragonese cosirar, Old Galician-Portuguese…

It is borrowed from Latin dīrigō (“to set in a line; to direct”), a learned word. Corominas dates it to the 15th century, after Cuervo; the CDH has it in Aragonese prose from 1385. The Latin verb is…

It is borrowed from Old Galician-Portuguese embaraçar (“to entangle, hinder”) or Old Leonese embaraçar, as Corominas and the Academy explain it. The verb is formed on baraça (“cord, noose”), also…

It is borrowed from French princesse, the feminine of prince (“prince”) made with the suffix -esse. Corominas notes that Nebrija already spelt it with a single ⟨s⟩, as Catalan and Portuguese still…

It is a learned borrowing, borrowed from Late Latin locālis (“of a place”). Corominas dates it to Alonso de Palencia (1490), but the CDH has it a century earlier, in Aragonese charters of 1396 that…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), which is from Byzantine Greek σκλάβος (sklábos, “Slav; slave”). Corominas thinks the word reached Castilian indirectly, most likely through…

Corominas takes it to be borrowed from French mariage (“marriage”), adapted to Spanish, and DICCA-XV agrees. The DLE derives it from the verb maridar “to marry; to join”, and Wiktionary as from…

It is formed from Spanish órgano + -izar: Corominas lists it among the derivatives of that noun, first recorded at the beginning of the 15th century in the Cancionero de Baena, and DICCA-XV calls it…