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Where does “fuero” come from?

fuero (English) comes from Spanish fuero, from Old Spanish fuero, from Latin forum, from Proto-Italic *forom.

fuero (English): A code; a charter; a grant of privileges; A...

Definitions

  1. A code; a charter; a grant of privileges; A...

Ancestry of “fuero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishfuerocharter; law, local law; law, laws
2Old Spanishfuero—
3Latinforumpublic place, marketplace, forum
4Proto-Italic*forom—
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