Etymograph

English

espinillo

Espinillo comes from Spanish espinillo ‘gorse’, from espino ‘hawthorn, buckthorn’, and ultimately from Latin spīnus ‘blackthorn, sloe tree’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspīnus‘blackthorn, sloe tree’
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentespina‘thorn’
  3. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentespino‘hawthorn, buckthorn’
  4. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentespinillo‘gorse’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEspīnus‘blackthorn, sloe tree’
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentespina‘thorn’
  3. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentespino‘hawthorn, buckthorn’
  4. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentespinillo‘gorse’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Every English word from Latin spīnus

Today it means

noun Vachellia caven, a South American tree.

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

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