Etymology

adobo

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Today it means: A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic. Full definition →

Spanish adobo ← Old French adober ← Germanic
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  1. Germanic · derived from
  2. Old French · derived fromadober“equip a horseman”
  3. Spanish · borrowed fromadobo
  4. English todayadobo

From Spanish adobo, from Old French adober (“equip a horseman”) (perhaps via Catalan), from the same Germanic root as dab, dub. Compare French daube (earlier dobe (1571), adobbe (1598)), Italian dobba (1549), adobbo (1570).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchadober all →

dub

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.