Etymology

aguardiente

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Today it means: A kind of brandy made in Spain and Portugal. Full definition →

Spanish aguardiente ← Latin ardentem ← Old Spanish agua
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂
  2. Proto-Italic*akʷā
  3. Latinaqua
  4. Old Spanishagua
  5. Spanishagua
  6. Latinardentem
  7. Spanishardiente
  8. Spanishaguardiente
  9. English todayaguardiente

Borrowed from Spanish aguardiente.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.