English
paloma
Paloma comes from Spanish paloma ‘dove’, and goes back to Latin palumbēs ‘wood pigeon’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalumbēsas palumbus‘wood pigeon’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEpalumba
- Old Spanishc. 950–1500paloma
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘dove’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalumbēsas palumbus‘wood pigeon’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEpalumba
- Old Spanishc. 950–1500paloma
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘dove’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020same form
Earliest quotation: 2020, Yoav Landau, Drunk: “Martini, Bellini, Negroni, Baileys, Kahlúa, sambuca Soju, paloma, mojito,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pelH- ‘gray, pale’
Today it means
noun A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin palumbēs / paloma