Etymograph

English

mozo

Mozo comes from Spanish mozo ‘boy, lad, young man, youth’.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentmozo1‘boy, lad, young man, youth’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1931mozo1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English mozo
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1931, Hart Crane: “I found, by advice, that single mozos weren't apt…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentmozoWiktionary, English mozo‘boy, lad, young man, youth’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1931mozoWiktionary, English mozo. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1931, Hart Crane: “I found, by advice, that single mozos weren't apt…”

Every English word from Spanish mozo

Today it means

noun A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “mozo”. 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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