The folk etymology that would rush to the minds of many, that flamenco is a reflex--of some kind--of Latin flamma and referenced the supposed fiery life and art styles of the Spanish Gypsies, has never been taken seriously by scholarship in or beyond Spain, firstly, no doubt, because the fl- of Latin flamma was early resolved as ll- in the northern dialects of Hispano-Romance and, secondly, because of the "un-Spanish" sound of the suffixal or concluding element -enco.

9781845531812 Suffixal rivalry in adjective formation; a cognitive-corpus analysis.

As we focus on categorial types rather than suffixal models the date of the textual prototype entered into the respective categorial slot in the electronic framework was that of the older, or eventually oldest, of the variant suffixal coinages.