Etymograph

English

garapata

Garapata comes from Spanish garrapata ‘tick’.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentgarrapata‘tick’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1873garapata

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentgarrapata‘tick’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1873garapata

Earliest quotation: 1873, United States. Navy Department, Annual Reports of the Navy Department: “[…] principally among the former were the garapatas, a…”

Every English word from Spanish garrapata

Today it means

noun A kind of wood tick.

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

Etymograph / Spanish garrapata / garapata

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