Spanish words by origin
- English
- Latin
- French
- Ancient Greek
- Italian
- German
- Spanish
- Dutch
- Old Church Slavonic
- Aromanian
- Hungarian
- Russian
- Old English
- Biblical Hebrew
- Albanian
- Middle English
- Old Norse
- Romanian
Where Spanish words come from, grouped by source language. A word is listed under every language in its history, so a Latin word that came through French appears under both. More in the Spanish statistics.
Most borrowed-from languages
134 of the 415 Spanish words in this dictionary (32%) were borrowed from another language. Counted from their entries' etymologies, and updated as entries are added.
- Latin 98 · 24%
- French 19 · 5%
- Greek 10 · 2%
- Gothic 5 · 1%
- Italian 4 · 1%
- Arabic 2 · 0%
- Catalan 2 · 0%
- Classical Nahuatl 2 · 0%
- Frankish 2 · 0%
- Old English 2 · 0%
- English 1 · 0%
- German 1 · 0%
- Malay 1 · 0%
- Old Catalan 1 · 0%
- Old Galician-Portuguese 1 · 0%
A word counts for every language it was taken from along the way, so the shares add up to more than the total. Inherited ancestors such as Old English and reconstructed proto-languages are not counted as borrowings.