Cilantro is indeed from Spanish and a later borrowing. https://www.etymonline.com/word/cilantro#etymonline_v_13705 https://www.etymonline.com/word/cilantro#etym

Cilantro is indeed from Spanish and a later borrowing. https://www.etymonline.com/word/cilantro#etymonline_v_13705 https://www.etymonline.com/word/cilantro#etymonline_v_13705 And Coriander is from Old French https://www.etymonline.com/word/coriander?ref=etymonline_crossreference https://www.etymonline.com/word/coriander?ref=etymonline_cro... traced all the way back to > from Greek koriannon, often said by botanists to be related to koris "bedbug" from the bad smell of the unripe fruit, or perhaps it is a non-Indo-European word conformed to the Greek insect name.