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tabaco · Spanish
noun · Spanish
Reading: Reading not yet researched
Tobacco-related plant, prepared leaf and smoking-implement uses.. Edited historical Spanish excerpts cover multiple referents; their order does not settle the source-language meaning.
1535 · reported Spanish word witness — Reported date of Oviedo’s first volume; the reproduced excerpts cover multiple contexts and editions. Not a first-use date for every sense.
Spanish reference region — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
The entry identifies a Caribbean Arawakan source, probably Taíno, while preserving two historical interpretations of its original sense. tobacco — Etymology · etymology and sense history
Spanish tabaco is the European form through which the word entered English. tobacco — Etymology · etymology and sense history
The English source reports tabaco in the 1580s, with the modern initial vowel later. tobacco(n.), opening and spelling paragraph
Arabic herbal-name ancestry is the DLE’s analysis of Spanish tabaco. Etymology
Historical Spanish reports cover several tobacco-related referents. Comentario > Primeras noticias del tabaco; quoted passages and final discussion
A Spanish written witness is reported in Oviedo’s 1535 work. Comentario, Navarro quotation before the three Oviedo passages
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for Spanish. LanguageTable row stan1288
tobacco · English
noun · English
Reading: Reading not yet researched
The tobacco plant and prepared leaves used as a narcotic.. The tobacco plant and prepared leaves used as a narcotic.
c. 1580s · reported English tabaco — A dictionary-reported decade, not the single year 1580. Modern tobacco is the display headform.
English reference region / Britain — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
Spanish tabaco is the European form through which the word entered English. tobacco — Etymology · etymology and sense history
The English source reports tabaco in the 1580s, with the modern initial vowel later. tobacco(n.), opening and spelling paragraph
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for English. LanguageTable row stan1293
tabaco · Taíno (proposed Caribbean source)
noun · Taíno (proposed Caribbean source)
Reading: Reading not yet researched
A reported Indigenous source associated with tobacco; exact source sense disputed.. Conventional source attribution through colonial reports; the original referent and even the borrowing direction are disputed.
Date not yet researched — No word-specific date established in the inspected lexical source.
Taíno reference region — Glottolog language reference point; not an origin, borrowing site or territorial boundary.
The entry identifies a Caribbean Arawakan source, probably Taíno, while preserving two historical interpretations of its original sense. tobacco — Etymology · etymology and sense history
Spanish tabaco is the European form through which the word entered English. tobacco — Etymology · etymology and sense history
Arabic herbal-name ancestry is the DLE’s analysis of Spanish tabaco. Etymology
Historical Spanish reports cover several tobacco-related referents. Comentario > Primeras noticias del tabaco; quoted passages and final discussion
Glottolog supplies the reference coordinates for Taino. LanguageTable row tain1254
ṭub[b]āq · Arabic (proposed source)
noun · Arabic (proposed source)
Reading: Reading not yet researched
A medicinal-herb name; alternative ancestry for Spanish tabaco.. Latin-script transcription as supplied by the DLE, including its bracketed consonant; no Arabic-script witness or historical pronunciation is invented.
Date not yet researched — No word-specific written date established in the inspected evidence.
Location not yet researched — No lexical origin or borrowing location is inferred.
Arabic herbal-name ancestry is the DLE’s analysis of Spanish tabaco. Etymology
Historical Spanish reports cover several tobacco-related referents. Comentario > Primeras noticias del tabaco; quoted passages and final discussion