English
puro
Puro comes from Spanish puro ‘cigar, puro’, and goes back to cigarro.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentcigarro‘cigar’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentpuro‘cigar, puro’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentcigarro‘cigar’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentpuro‘cigar, puro’
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’
reputation, deputy, pity, pure, pour, pious, piety, purity, purification, putative, purify, expiation, purist, purée, 17 more
through Latin cicāda ‘cicada, tree-cricket’
through Spanish cigarro ‘cigar’
Today it means
noun A cigar, especially one made with tobacco from a single country.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish cigarro / puro