vínculo

/ˈbinkulo/ · B1 · noun · m

link

🔗🤝 Vínculo comes from Latin vinculum, a chain or fetter, from vincire, to bind

Latin vincire meant to bind or tie up, and vinculum was the cord or chain that did the binding. Spanish kept it for any bond between people, and the web reused it for a link, the thing that ties two pages together.

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