Where does “pintoresco” come from?
pintoresco (Spanish) comes from Italian pittoresco, from Italian -esco, from Vulgar Latin -iscus, from Latin -ensis, from Latin arvum, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
pintoresco (Spanish): picturesque, quaint
Ancestry of “pintoresco”, step by step