Where does “sombrero” come from?
Sombrero comes from Spanish sombrero, derived from Spanish sombra meaning shadow, with the agent suffix Spanish -ero, which traces to Latin -arius and ultimately Proto-Indo-European -yós.
sombrero (English): A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical...
Definitions
- A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical...
Ancestry of “sombrero”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | sombrero | hat |
| 2 | Spanish | -ero | forms occupations and other agent nouns from... |
| 3 | Latin | -ārium | — |
| 4 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |
Words derived from “sombrero”