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The name pastrami likely comes from the Romanian verb "a păstra", meaning to preserve or to keep, [1] [2] [3] referencing a traditional method of meat preservation prevalent before refrigeration. Ultimately, it was probably derived from the Turkish, Greek, and Serbo-Croatian pastirma and bastırma meaning "to press".
The origins of the taco are not precisely known, and etymologies for the culinary usage of the word are generally theoretical. [3] [4] Taco in the sense of a typical Mexican dish comprising a maize tortilla folded around food is just one of the meanings connoted by the word, according to the Real Academia Española, publisher of Diccionario de la Lengua Española. [5]