Etymology

chubasco

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Today it means: A violent squall with thunder and lightning, encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Central America and South America. Full definition →

Spanish chubasco ← Portuguese chuva ← Latin pluvia
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompluvia“rain”
  2. Portuguese · derived fromchuva“rain”
  3. Spanish · borrowed fromchubasco“downpour”
  4. English todaychubasco

Borrowed from Spanish chubasco (“downpour”), from Portuguese chuva (“rain”), from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Words from the same roots

Latinpluvia all →

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