Where does “chinche” come from?
chinche (Spanish) comes from Spanish pinche, from Spanish pinchar, from Spanish punchar, from Spanish punzar, from Vulgar Latin puntiare, from Latin punctiāre, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
chinche (Spanish): bedbug; thumbtack
Definitions
- bedbug; thumbtack
Ancestry of “chinche”, step by step
chinche traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish pinche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | pinche | damned, goddamned; stingy, cheap; a kitchen... |
| 2 | Spanish | pinchar | to puncture, prick, pierce; to poke; to sting |
| 3 | Spanish | punchar | to pierce; to punch |
| 4 | Spanish | punzar | to perforate, punch; to sting, twinge |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | puntiare | — |
| 6 | Latin | punctiāre | sting, prick |
| 7 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 8 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via Latin cīmex
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | cīmex | bug |