assiento

The story

1. Latin · derived fromad
2. Spanish · derived fromasiento“seat, contract or agreement”
3. English todayassiento

From Spanish asiento (“seat, contract or agreement”), from asentar (“to place on a chair, to adjust, to make an agreement”), from a- + sentar (“a participial verb”), from Latin ad + *sedentare (“to cause to sit”), from sedens, sedentis.

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