Where does “indio” come from?
indio (Spanish) comes 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, from Sanskrit सिन्धु.
indio (Spanish): Indian; Indian, Native American; Spanish colonial...
Definitions
- Indian; Indian, Native American; Spanish colonial...
Ancestry of “indio”, step by step
indio traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish índigo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | índigo | indigo; indigo plant |
| 2 | Latin | indicum | genitive plural of index; inflection of... |
| 3 | Latin | Indicus | of India |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ἰνδικός | Indian, Indic |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Ἰνδία | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | Ἰνδός | an inhabitant of India or the Indian... |
| 7 | Old Persian | 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 | India; people living beyond the Indus |
| 8 | Sanskrit | सिन्धु | a river, stream; flood, waters; ocean, sea |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | síndʰuṣ | river, ocean; flow |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | síndʰuš | river, stream |
| 11 | Sanskrit | सिन्धु॑ | — |
via Portuguese índio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | índio | Indian of or relating to the aboriginal people of the Americas |
| 2 | Portuguese | -o | forms masculine singular nouns and adjectives;... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | -o | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |