Spanish words first recorded in the 9th century

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *amlāre (“to walk”), a careless Romance pronunciation of Latin ambulō (“to walk”), according to the DCECH and the DLE. Wiktionary takes it from the early Medieval…

It is inherited from Old Spanish bever, inherited from Latin bibō (“to drink”). Wiktionary puts the modern spelling with ⟨b⟩ for the medieval ⟨v⟩ down to the influence of the Latin spelling. The…

It is inherited from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”); Old Spanish cárcere, recorded in the 10th century, had taken its present form by the time of the Cid. The final /l/ arose by dissimilation of the…

It is inherited from Latin cum (“with”), with the same form in Old Spanish con. The Latin final /m/ became /n/, as in quien from quem: Bénaben explains this by the loss of the contrast between…

It is inherited from Latin quandō (“when”); Old Spanish quando is recorded from the 10th century. The Latin word was both temporal, “when”, and causal, “since”, and replaced cum in these uses. The…

It is inherited from Old Spanish dexar, an alteration of the older lexar, which is inherited from Latin laxō (“to widen; to loosen, slacken”), a derivative of laxus (“loose, slack”). After Tailhan's…

It is inherited from Latin in (“in, into”), already Old Spanish en. Corominas leaves its history to the grammars. Latin in, written en in the Duenos inscription, goes back to Proto-Italic *en and…

It is inherited from Old Spanish fambre, earlier famne, inherited from Vulgar Latin *famen (“hunger”), a Vulgar Latin form of Latin famēs (“hunger”). The DCECH starts from the Vulgar Latin…

It is inherited from Latin sapiō (“to taste; to be wise, know”). In Latin the verb usually referred to taste, but the comic poets already used it for “to have sense, know what one is about”, which…

The verb merges two Latin verbs. Most of its forms continue inherited from Latin esse (“to be”), in the Vulgar Latin infinitive *essere that replaced classical esse. The others, including the…

It is inherited from Latin ūnus (“one; only one; single”), Old Spanish uno. The indefinite article un has the same origin: it was at first only the apocopated form of the numeral, and in every…

It is inherited from Old Spanish vezino, inherited from Late Latin vēcīnus, from Latin vīcīnus (“neighbouring; neighbour”). The Latin adjective is formed from vīcus (“quarter of a town; village”)…

It is inherited from Latin ventus (“wind”), already viento in the oldest texts. It has been in general use in every period and survives in all the Romance languages: Portuguese vento, Galician…

It is inherited from Old Spanish voluntad, inherited from Latin voluntās (“will, choice”), taken from the accusative. Corominas and Wiktionary treat it as a semi-learned word that became part of the…