Word Origin Summary

Chile con carne is attested in Spanish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• chili

  English · derived from

• chili con carne

  English · borrowed from

• cili

  MSA · borrowed from

• 칠리

  Korean · borrowed from

• chili con carne

  Spanish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root