Etymology

botijo

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Today it means: A traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation. Full definition →

Spanish botijo ← Vulgar Latin *buticula ← Late Latin butticula
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The story

  1. Vulgar Latin · derived frombuttis
  2. Late Latin · derived frombutticula
  3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*buticula
  4. Spanish · derived frombotija
  5. Spanish · borrowed frombotijo
  6. English todaybotijo

Borrowed from Spanish botijo, from Spanish botija, from Vulgar Latin *buticula (or from Late Latin butticula, with attestation difficult to locate), from Vulgar Latin buttis (or LL.).

Words from the same roots

Spanishbotija all →

Late Latinbutticula all →

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