The story
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*barra“bar, barrier”
- Latin · derived from*imbarricāre“to bar”
- Spanish · derived fromembargar“to arrest”
- English todayembargo
From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”).
Words from the same roots
Spanishembargar all →
embarge
Vulgar Latin*barra all →
barbarrack
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.