abacero

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic صاحب الزاد‎ (ṣāḥib az-zād, “owner of the provisions”). Or, from haba (“broad bean”), one of the provisions first sold at this store.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /abaˈθeɾo/, [aβaˈθeɾo]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /abaˈseɾo/, [aβaˈseɾo]

abacero m (plural abaceros, feminine abacera, feminine plural abaceras)

1. grocer

• abarrotero (Latin America)

• abacería

• “abacero” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN