horchata
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish horchata, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *hordeata (“(drink, food) made of barley”), from hordeum (“barley”), either via Catalan/Valencian orxata (possibly via a Mozarabic source), or via Italian orzata.
Also cognate to English and French orgeat (“almond syrup”) and Surinamese Dutch orgeade.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]horchata (countable and uncountable, plural horchatas)
- A sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk.
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- Manufacturers from the villages surrounding the capital of the region came each day to the city of Valencia with carts pulled by donkeys to sell fresh horchata, tiger nuts and barley water.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:horchata.
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horchata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “horchata”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Catalan/Valencian orxata (possibly via a Mozarabic source[1]), from Vulgar Latin *hordeata, from Latin hordeum (“barley”). However, the word was attested relatively late in Catalan as well (17th-18th century), so this is uncertain.[2] Alternatively, it may be of Italian origin; cf. orzata (“barley water”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]horchata f (plural horchatas)
- horchata (sweet beverage)
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “horchata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- ^ Coromines, Joan (1987) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “horchata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- horchata on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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