Etymology

bracero

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Today it means: A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945. Full definition →

Spanish bracero ← Old Spanish braço ← Latin bracchium
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mreǵʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*mréǵʰus
  3. Proto-Hellenic*brəkʰús
  4. Ancient Greekβρᾰχῠ́ς (brăkhŭ́s)
  5. Ancient Greekβρᾰχῑ́ων (brăkhī́ōn)
  6. Latinbracchium
  7. Old Spanishbraço
  8. Spanishbrazo
  9. Spanishbracero
  10. English todaybracero

Borrowed from Spanish bracero (“laborer”).

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