Where does “añejo” come from?
añejo (Spanish) comes from Latin annexus, from Latin annectō, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
añejo (Spanish): aged; vintage; more than one year old
Definitions
- aged; vintage; more than one year old
Ancestry of “añejo”, step by step
añejo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin annexus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | annexus | tied, fastened or bound on or to, connected,... |
| 2 | Latin | annectō | — |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Vulgar Latin anniclus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vulgar Latin | anniclus | — |
| 2 | Latin | anniculus | one-year-old |
| 3 | Latin | *bienniculus | — |
| 4 | Latin | -culus | Alternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-kelos | Diminutive suffix |