Estrada
/eˈstɾaða/noun
A road or street, especially in Spanish and Portuguese.
Did you know?Estrada comes from Latin strata, the feminine past participle of sternere, “to spread out,” and it originally referred to a paved road laid down like a flat, controlled surface.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ster-
“to spread, strew, or lay out”
Latin
Latin
stratus
“spread out; laid flat”
Late Latin
Latin
via strata
“paved road, literally “spread-out road””
Old Spanish / Old Portuguese
Romance
estrada
“road, way, route”
Modern Spanish / Portuguese
Spanish/Portuguese
estrada
“road or street”