Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Spanish ·1830s
Rodeo
from rodeo
- Meaning
- A round-up — gathering cattle in a ring.
- Source word
- rodeo
- Route into English
- Spanish *rodeo* (from *rodear*, to surround) → American English via Mexican vaquero culture in Texas, California, and the wider West.
- Arrived
- 1830s
From Spanish
American Spanish, not peninsular Spanish, provided most of the modern loanwords — through US expansion westward and Latin American trade.
English borrows.
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