presidio · noun1
- Latin · derived frompraesidium
- Spanish · borrowed frompresidio“garrison”
- English todaypresidio
From Spanish presidio (“garrison”), from Latin praesidium, 1763. Doublet of praesidium and presidium.
Presidio · proper noun2
Shortened from Presidio del Norte, the name given in 1830. Known as La Junta de los Ríos prior to that.
Words from the same roots
Latinpraesidium all →
presidium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.