cafeteria — from cafetería (“coffee store”)

incommunicado — estar incomunicado (“to be isolated”)

jade — from piedra de ijada (“stone of flank”)

nada — “nothing”

platinum — from platino (little silver)

pronto — “hurry up!” in Mexican Spanish

savvy — from sabe (“knows”) and sabio (“wise”)

siesta — “nap,” originally from Latin sexta hora (“sixth hour”)

suave — “smooth,” sometimes “cool” in Latin America

adobe — from Spanish adobar (to plaster), from Arabic aṭ-ṭūb (“the bricks”)

cabana — from Spanish cabaña  (“cabin”)

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