Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Spanish ·1840s
Fiesta
from fiesta
- Meaning
- A festival or celebration.
- Source word
- fiesta
- Route into English
- Spanish *fiesta* (feast, from Latin *festa*) → American English as a direct borrowing, usually marking a Hispanic cultural event. Ford used the name for a car in 1976; the cognate *feast* is much older in English.
- 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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