Where does “picadillo” come from?
picadillo (English) comes from Spanish picadillo, from Spanish picado, from Spanish picar, from Spanish pico, from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
picadillo (English): Any of various Spanish or South American dishes...
Definitions
- Any of various Spanish or South American dishes...
Ancestry of “picadillo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | picadillo | salad; minced meat |
| 2 | Spanish | picado | rotten, spoiled; piqued; decayed |
| 3 | Spanish | picar | to itch; to sting; to chop |
| 4 | Spanish | pico | beak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe |
| 5 | Old Spanish | bico | — |
| 6 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 7 | Latin | -āceus | — |
| 8 | Latin | -āx | — |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |