Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Spanish ·1830s
Conquistador
from conquistador
- Meaning
- A Spanish soldier who conquered parts of the Americas in the 16th century.
- Source word
- conquistador
- Route into English
- Spanish *conquistador* (conqueror) → English as the historical term for Cortés, Pizarro, and their contemporaries. English has always used it in this narrowed historical sense.
- Arrived
- 1830s
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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