 The word "barbecue" derives from the word "barabicu", found in the language of the Taíno people of Caribbean and the Timucua of Florida, and entered European languages in the form "barbacoa".Specifically, the "Oxford English Dictionary" translates the word as a ""framework of sticks set upon posts"".Gonzalo Fernández De Oviedo y Valdés, a Spanish explorer, was the first to use the word "barbecoa" in print in Spain in 1526 in the "Diccionario de la Lengua Española (2nd Edition) of the Real Academia Española."