ángel

angel (an incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity); angel (one of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues); angel (a person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness)

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos)bor. Late Latin angeluslbor. ▲ Latin angelus Occitano-Romancebor.? Old Spanish angel Spanish ángel Inherited from Old Spanish angel, a learned borrowing from Late Latin angelus (“messenger, angel”), or alternatively perhaps an early borrowing from an Occitano-Romance language (compare Catalan àngel and Occitan àngel), explaining the lack of a final /o/; however, a variant dialectal form ángelo is attested. The Latin word itself derives from Ancient G