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ojalá (Interjection) "God willing!" Very late 15th cent. Old Spanish oxalá. Borrowed from an Arabic phrase wa-šā’ allāh "may God will it." Indo-European Romance Portuguese oxalá 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/.
ojo m. (Noun) "eye;" "source" 12th cent. From Vulgar Latin oclus 'id.' From Latin oculus 'id.' From Proto-Italic *okelo- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ok^w- "eye." Probably from an older root verb *h₃ek^w- "to see." Indo-European Romance Portuguese óculo, Catalan òcul Germanic Gothic augo "eye," Old Norse auga 'id.,' Old High German ouga 'id.,' Old Saxon ōga, Old English ēage 'id.' (English eye) Albanian Albanian sy "eye" Balto-Slavic Old Church Slavonic oko "eye," Russian (archaic) óko 'id.,' Czech oko 'id.,' Polish oko 'id.,' Slovene okọ̑ 'id.,' Old Prussian ackis "eyes," Lithuanian akìs "eye," Latvian acs 'id.' Hellenic Ancient Greek ὤψ (óp^s) "eye" Armenian Armenian akn "eye" Indo-Iranian Sanskrit akṣ-ī́ "eyes," Young Avestan aši "eyes" Tocharian A ak "eye," B ek 'id.' In the 3rd or 4th cent. text Appendix Probi we find the line: oculus non oclus "[the word for 'eye' is] oculus, not oclus." The author's spelling correction proves how the word was pronounced by common speakers, and offers a rare glimpse of the evolution of Latin into Romance languages such as Spanish. 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. 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.
ok, okei (Interjection) "okay" Borrowed from English okay, earlier OK, of unknown origin. The most popular theory is that it derives from oll korrect, a comical misspelling of "all correct," as part of an 1830s American fad of exotic abbreviations (see Read 1964). Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
oler (Verb) "to smell" 13th cent. From Latin olere 'id.' From Proto-Italic *od-e/o- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian goler, Italian olire Balto-Slavic Old Czech jadati "to investigate," Lithuanian úosti "to smell," Latvian uôst 'id.' Hellenic Ancient Greek ὀδμή (odmé) "smell" Armenian Armenian hot "smell" 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.
olor m. (Noun) "smell" 13th cent. From Latin olor 'id.,' derived from olere "to smell" (see oler). Indo-European Romance Asturian golor, Catalan olor 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.
olvidado (Adjective) "forgotten" From olvidar. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
olvidar (Verb) "to forget" 12th cent. From Vulgar Latin *oblitare 'id.,' from Latin oblivisci of the same meaning. Of unknown origin. The first element ob looks suspiciously like the prefix ob- "toward" (see ob-), but we are left with the puzzle in the rest of the word. Indo-European Romance Asturian olvidar, Catalan oblidar, Frech oublier, Italian obliare, Aromanian ultu, Romanian uita, Sardinian olvidare Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. 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.
-on, -ón Augmentative suffix akin to "large." From Vulgar Latin *-one 'id.' Of unknown origin. It is phonologically possible that it comes from Latin -onem, the accusative of -o, a suffix forming masculine nouns, however this is semantically difficult. If from Latin -o, then from Proto-Italic *-ōn- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *h₃onh₂- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Portuguese -ão de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. 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.
opción f. (Noun) "option" 18th cent. From Latin optionem, accusative of optio 'id.' From a hypothetical verb *opere "to choose." See optar for more information. Indo-European Romance Portuguese opção, French option, Italian opzione, Romanian opțiune 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.
operación f. (Noun) "operation" 15th cent. From Latin operationem, accusative of operatio 'id.' Ultimately from operari "to operate" (see operar). Indo-European Romance French opération 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.