Etymograph

English

hoosegow

Hoosegow comes from Spanish juzgao ‘pronunciation spelling of juzgado’, from juzgado ‘court, courthouse’, and ultimately from Latin iūdicātus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūdicātus
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentjuzgado‘court, courthouse’
  3. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentjuzgao‘pronunciation spelling of juzgado’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2006hoosegow

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūdicātus
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentjuzgado‘court, courthouse’
  3. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentjuzgao‘pronunciation spelling of juzgado’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2006hoosegow

Earliest quotation: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day: “There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to…”

Every English word from Latin iūdicātus

Today it means

noun A jail.

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

Etymograph / Latin iūdicātus / hoosegow

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