Etymology

horchata

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Today it means: A sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk. Full definition →

Spanish horchata ← Vulgar Latin *hordeata ← Valencian orxata
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromorzata
  2. Valencian · derived fromorxata
  3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*hordeata“(drink, food) made of barley”
  4. Spanish · borrowed fromhorchata
  5. English todayhorchata

Borrowed from Spanish horchata, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *hordeata (“(drink, food) made of barley”), from hordeum (“barley”), either via Catalan/Valencian orxata (possibly via a Mozarabic source), or via Italian orzata. Doublet of orgeat (“almond syrup”) and orzo (“barley-shaped pasta”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.