Modern Borrowings
Spanish borrowed words from other European languages (its close neighbors such as Catalan, other Romance languages like French (this particularly during the Neoclassicist to Napoleonic periods, when French language and culture became the fashion at the royal court) and Italian, and Germanic languages like English). For example:
- chao, chau "bye" from Italian ciao (sometimes co-existing with adiós)
- chofer "chauffeur" from French (co-existing with "conductor")
- elenco "team" or "cast" from Italian (co-existing with equipo when it is used as team)
- sandwich, from English (Originally 'emparedado", sometimes co-existing with "bocadillo")
- briquet from French (used in Colombia, co-existing with encendedor)
- capot from French
- carnet from French (identification card)
- fútbol from English (football) (originally balompié)
- gendarme from French (prison guards).
- coche from Hungarian kocsi.
- pistola from German Pistole.
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