Where does “インディオ” come from?

インディオ (Japanese) comes from Spanish indio, from Spanish índigo, from Latin indicum, from Latin Indicus, from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός, from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁.

インディオ (Japanese): Indian, a Native American of Latin America

Definitions

Indian, a Native American of Latin America

Ancestry of “インディオ”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Spanish	indio	Indian; Indian, Native American; Spanish colonial...
2	Spanish	índigo	indigo; indigo plant
3	Latin	indicum	genitive plural of index; inflection of...
4	Latin	Indicus	of India
5	Ancient Greek	ἰνδικός	—
6	Ancient Greek	Ἰνδία	—
7	Ancient Greek	Ἰνδός	an inhabitant of India or the Indian...
8	Old Persian	𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁	India; people living beyond the Indus
9	Sanskrit	सिन्धु	a river, stream; flood, waters; ocean, sea
10	Proto-Indo-Aryan	síndʰuṣ	river, ocean; flow
11	Proto-Indo-Iranian	síndʰuš	river, stream
12	Sanskrit	सिन्धु॑	—

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