Our search of words dating to 1862 turned up one and only one term of American Spanish origin (ciguatera), but playing around with the Advanced Search function yielded more than 140 terms that include "American Spanish" in their history. Nearly half of them entered our lexicon before 1862; the remainder entered after 1862.

Interested in which words came when? You can scroll through the list you create by choosing the Collegiate as your source, clicking on Advanced Search and typing American Spanish in the Etymology field. Or check out our lists of selected words predating 1862 and words postdating 1862.