Etymograph

English

corrida

Corrida comes from Spanish correr ‘to run, to jog’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱers-1‘to run’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱr̥séti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korzō1‘to run’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurrō1‘to run’
  5. Old Spanishc. 950–1500correr1
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentcorrer1‘to run, to jog’
  7. Spanishc. 1500–presentcorrida1
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2009corrida1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English corrida
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2009, AL Kennedy, Deaths in the afternoon: “[…]El Juli, a young and already much-admired torero, takes…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱers-Wiktionary, English corrida‘to run’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱr̥sétiWiktionary, English corridareconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korzōWiktionary, English corrida‘to run’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurrōWiktionary, English corrida‘to run’
  5. Old Spanishc. 950–1500correrWiktionary, English corrida
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentcorrerWiktionary, English corrida‘to run, to jog’
  7. Spanishc. 1500–presentcorridaWiktionary, English corrida
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2009corridaWiktionary, English corrida. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2009, AL Kennedy, Deaths in the afternoon: “[…]El Juli, a young and already much-admired torero, takes…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- ‘to run’

career, charge, carry, rush, cargo, hurry, carrier, occurrence, carriage, intercourse, carousel, recourse, chariot, caricature, recursive, hurrah, cursory, corral, carrack, 34 more

through Proto-Italic *korzō ‘to run’

discourse, courier, concurrent, recurrent, incursion, concourse, 19 more

through Latin currō ‘to run’

course, current, occur, currency, curriculum, incur, precursor, concur, cursor, recursion, recur, corsair, courant, hussar, succour, 23 more

Today it means

noun a bullfight

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “corrida”. 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.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- / corrida

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