Etymology

desnuda

des·nu·da
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Today it means: A topless female street performer covered in body paint who poses for photographs in exchange for tips in the pedestrian plaza of New York City's Times Square. Full definition →

Spanish desnuda ← Latin nūdus ← Proto-Indo-European *negʷ-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*negʷ-“bare, naked”
  2. Latin · derived fromnūdus“naked, nude, undressed”
  3. Spanish · borrowed fromdesnuda
  4. English todaydesnuda

Borrowed from Spanish desnuda, the feminine singular of desnudo (“naked, nude, undressed”), ultimately from Latin nūdus (“naked, nude, undressed”) and Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare, naked”).

Words from the same roots

Latinnūdus all →

nudenudibranchnudification

Proto-Indo-European*negʷ- all →

naked

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