The story
- Latin · derived fromsiccus“dry”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*siccīna“jerky”
- Spanish · borrowed fromcecina
- English todaycecina
From Spanish cecina, from Vulgar Latin *siccīna (“jerky”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsiccus all →
rent secksiccimeter
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.