Etymology

pendejo

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Today it means: A stupid person. Full definition →

Spanish pendejo ← Vulgar Latin *pectinī̆culum ← Latin pectin-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*peḱt-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pḱtḗn
  4. Proto-Italic*pekten
  5. Latinpectin-
  6. Vulgar Latin*pectinī̆culum
  7. Spanishpendejo
  8. English todaypendejo

Borrowed from Spanish pendejo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.