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bote (4) (Adjective) "completely full" 16th cent. Borrowed from French boute 'id.' Occurs in the phrase de bote en bote, a translation of the Old French idiom de bout en bout "from one end to the other." From Old French boter "to strike" (see botar for a continued etymology). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
botella f. (Noun) "bottle" 18th cent. Borrowed from French bouteille 'id.' From Latin butticula "little wineskin." From buttis "wineskin" (see bote (3)). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
boxear (Verb) (sport) "to box" 20th cent. Borrowed from English box. Of unknown origin. Perhaps imitative of the sound of a blow, but note that possible cognates exist in several other Germanic languages. Indo-European Germanic Middle Dutch boke "blow," Middle High German bochen "to slap," buc "blow," "stroke," Danish bask "hit" [O]f unknown origin ; perh. related to an OTeut. *boki- ... but in this case the formation remains unexplained. It has also been compared to Danish bask blow, stripe, but no intermed. links have been found. (More probably it is of native English origin ...). ~ Sir J. A. H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1887) Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
boxeo m. (Noun) (sport) "boxing" 20th cent. From boxear. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
brazo m. (Noun) "arm" 11th cent. From Latin bracchium 'id.' Borrowed from Ancient Greek βραχίων ‎(brak^híon) 'id.' Of unknown origin. Also responsible for the surnames Brazo and Brazos, given to men in respect of their physical strength. Indo-European Romance Asturian brazu, Portuguese braço, Galician brazo, Catalan braç, French bras, Italian braccio, Dalmatian braz, Aromanian brats, Romanian braț, Sardinian baltzu Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008. Tibón, G. Diccionario etimológico comparado de los apellidos españoles, hispanoamericanos y filipinos. Editorial Diana: Mexico. 1988.
brazo m. (Noun) arm 11th cent. From Latin bracchium 'id.' Borrowed from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brak^híon) 'id.' From βρᾰχῠ́ς (brak^hús) "short," crafted in reference to the shortness of the upper arm relative to the forearm. From Proto-Indo-European *mreǵ^h- "short," "brief." As a surname Brazo and Brazos, first found during the Middle Ages, given to those of strength or valor. Indo-European Romance Asturian brazu, Portuguese braço, Galician brazo, Catalan braç, French bras, Italian braccio, Dalmatian braz, Aromanian brats, Romanian braț, Sardinian baltzu Italic Latin brevis "short," "brief" (see breve). Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008. Tibón, G. Diccionario etimológico comparado de los apellidos españoles, hispanoamericanos y filipinos. Editorial Diana: Mexico. 1988.
breve (Adjective) brief, "short" 13th cent. From Latin brevis 'id.' From Proto-Italic *mreχ-u-i- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *mr̥ǵ^h-u̯- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Portuguese breve, Galician breve, Catalan breu, French bref, Italian breve Germanic Gothic maurgus "short," Old High German murgi 'id.,' Middle Dutch mergelijc, Old English myrige "pleasing," "brisk" (English merry) Hellenic Ancient Greek βρᾰχῠ́ς (brak^hús) "short" (see brazo) Indo-Iranian Sanskrit múhu "suddenly," Avestan mərəzu 'id.' Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
brezo (1) m. (Noun) "heather" 13th cent. Old Spanish bruezo. From Vulgar Latin *broccius 'id.,' from Proto-Celtic *wroiko- 'id.' Of unknown origin but probably borrowed from the same source language as the Balto-Slavic "heather"-words (infra). Variants Navarre beruezo, La Rioja brozo Indo-European Romance Asturian berezu, gorbizu (< *go-brizu), (Palacios del Sil) bouza "thicket," Galician breixo, Old French bruiere Celtic Welsh grug "heather," Old Irish freoch "heather," Gaelic fraoch 'id.' Balto-Slavic Russian véres "heather," Slovene vrẹ̑s "heather," Polish vřes "heather," Lithuanian vìržis "heather," Latvian vir̂zis 'id.' Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Derksen, R. Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon. BRILL. 2014. Derksen, R. Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon. BRILL. 2014. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
brezo (2) m. (Noun) "rocking cradle" 16h cent. On the basis of its phonology, hypothesized to be from a Celtic language (several Celtic tongues were spoken in Iberia in ancient times). From Proto-Celtic brett- or bert-* "bed," "cradle." Of unknown origin. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
brillante (Adjective) "brilliant" 17th cent. From brillar. Indo-European Romance Asturian (Palluezu) brillante, Portuguese brilhante, Galician brillante, Catalan brillant, French brillant, Italian brillante Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.