Etymograph

English

rastaquouère

Rastaquouère comes from Spanish rastacuero, from cuero ‘hide’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)koryóm.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)koryómreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korjomreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorium‘skin’
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentcuero‘hide’
  5. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentrastacuero
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentrastaquouère
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1992same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)koryómreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korjomreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorium‘skin’
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentcuero‘hide’
  5. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentrastacuero
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentrastaquouère
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1992same form

Earliest quotation: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America: “Like the prodigal rastaquouères—those Latin American millionaires who flaunted…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to cut off, sever’

short, across, card, share, cross, cancer, screen, score, shirt, circle, circuit, crucial, curve, circus, circulation, skirt, scare, carnival, curb, scar, cancellation, scrutiny, shrine, circa, corona, shear, scorpion, crest, carnage, incarceration, circulate, shred, carcinoma, corolla, scorn, crux, raffle, shard, carnal, shrewd, 118 more

through Latin corium ‘skin’

currier, 7 more

Today it means

noun A social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean or Latin American country; a smooth untrustworthy foreigner.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)koryóm / rastaquouère

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