Etymograph

English

botijo

Botijo comes from Spanish botija ‘jug’, and goes back to Vulgar Latin buttis ‘cask, barrel’.

  1. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEbuttis1‘cask, barrel’
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*buticula1reconstructed
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentbotija1‘jug’
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentbotijo1
  5. Englishtodaybotijo1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English botijo

Lineage

  1. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEbuttisWiktionary, English botijo‘cask, barrel’
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*buticulaWiktionary, English botijoreconstructed
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentbotijaWiktionary, English botijo‘jug’
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentbotijoWiktionary, English botijo
  5. EnglishtodaybotijoWiktionary, English botijo

Linked words

through Vulgar Latin buttis ‘cask, barrel’

bottle, 4 more

Today it means

noun A traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “botijo”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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