Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Spanish ·1840s
Bodega
from bodega
- Meaning
- A small grocery or wine shop, especially in urban Hispanic neighbourhoods.
- Source word
- bodega
- Route into English
- Spanish *bodega* (storeroom, cellar, from Latin *apotheca*, storehouse) → English via Spanish-speaking neighbourhoods in US cities, especially New York in the mid-20th century.
- Arrived
- 1840s
From Spanish
American Spanish, not peninsular Spanish, provided most of the modern loanwords — through US expansion westward and Latin American trade.
English borrows.
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