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”)