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1800s

Spanish words first recorded in the 19th century

3 Spanish words whose earliest known written record dates from the 19th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. traicionar

    1814

    It is formed from Spanish traición + -ar. Corominas dates it 1855, and Boyd-Bowman has it already in 1814, in Uruguay. traición, recorded from about 1140, is from Latin trāditiō (“a handing over…

  2. rol

    1844

    1. The word for a part or function is borrowed from English role (“part played by an actor”), which is from French rôle. The Puerto Rican Tesoro also lists it as an adapted anglicism, while the DTME…

  3. ducha

    1884

    It is borrowed from French douche, which is from Italian doccia (“water pipe; shower”). Corominas takes the Italian noun as a back-formation from doccione (“large pipe”), from Latin ductiō…

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