Etymology

Cuzco

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Today it means: A city in Peru, the former capital of the Inca Empire. Full definition →

Spanish Cuzco ← Quechua Qusqu
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The story

  1. Quechua · derived fromQusqu
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromCuzco
  3. English todayCuzco

Borrowed from Spanish Cuzco, from Quechua Qusqu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.