English Explanatory Dictionary

assiento

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for providing African slaves for the Spanish colonies in America, especially the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

Word forms

assiento assientos assientoes asiento

Etymology

From Spanish asiento (“seat, contract or agreement”), from asentar (“to place on a chair, to adjust, to make an agreement”), from a- + sentar (“a participial verb”), from Latin ad + *sedentare (“to cause to sit”), from sedens, sedentis.

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