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A.Word.A.Day--ramada

This week's theme: Words borrowed from Spanish

noun: An open shelter roofed with branches. [From Spanish, from rama (branch), from Vulgar Latin rama, from Latin ramus (branch). The word "ramify" branches out from the same root "ramus".]

An anagram of today's word is armada (a fleet of warships), another term we've borrowed from Spanish.

"We are issued orange White House press passes and herded under a ramada near the flight line."
Rhonda Bodfield; Reporter-in-waiting Just Waits, And Waits; The Arizona Daily Star; Feb 27, 1999.

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