The story
- French · derived fromcontrebande
- Italian · derived fromcontrabando
- Spanish · borrowed fromcontrabanda
- English todaycontraband
From Spanish contrabanda (modern spelling contrabando), from Italian contrabando (modern spelling contrabbando), from contra (“against”) + bando (“ban”), and reinforced by French contrebande.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.