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Spanish words first recorded in the 18th century

3 Spanish words whose earliest known written record dates from the 18th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. talismán

    1728

    It is borrowed from French talisman, a learned word that came into Spanish from the European languages, not an old Arabism. The ultimate source is Ancient Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, “payment; religious…

  2. cumpleaños

    1729

    It is a verb–object compound from Spanish cumple (“completes”) + años (“years”), literally “(the day one) completes years”, with the verb in the third person singular of the present. Gómez de Silva…

  3. fumar

    1732

    Corominas takes it as probably borrowed from French fumer (“to smoke”), which had the sense of smoking tobacco from 1664. Wiktionary follows him. The French verb is from Latin fūmāre (“to give off…

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