Etymograph

English

Sucre

Sucre comes from Spanish Sucre.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentSucre
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2007same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentSucre
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2007same form

Earliest quotation: 2007, Simon Romero, A Radical Gives Bolivia Some Stability: “La Paz and Sucre dispute which city should be…”

The story

Borrowed from Spanish Sucre, named after Antonio José de Sucre.

Today it means

name The constitutional capital of Bolivia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Spanish Sucre / Sucre