Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Spanish ·1820s
Patio
from patio
- Meaning
- An inner courtyard — typically open to the sky.
- Source word
- patio
- Route into English
- Spanish *patio* (from Old Occitan *patu*, pasture) → English via American Southwest architectural vocabulary. The backyard-concrete sense is a 20th-century US specialisation.
- Arrived
- 1820s
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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