English
flamingo
Flamingo may come from Portuguese flamengo.
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentflamengouncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1950flamingo
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentflamengouncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1950flamingo
Earliest quotation: 1950, Timothy H. Cobb, The Kenya-Uganda Railway: “After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to…”
The story
From Portuguese flamengo (‘flamingo’) and Spanish flamenco (‘flamingo’), which were adapted from Catalan flamenc (‘flamingo’), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense.disputed Scholars disagree here; the competing view is quoted as the source gives it. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type.
Every English word from Portuguese flamengo
Today it means
noun A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Portuguese flamengo / flamingo