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
Ancestry of “chinche”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | — |
| 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 |
Words derived from “chinche”