hacia

Etymology
Borrowing from Spanish.

Preposition

 * 1) toward, towards

Etymology
According to Coromines and Pascual, from (attested ca. 1300), with the variant  (att. in Cid, Berceo, Calila e Dimna), and in pre-literary Latinized spelling  (att. 1208, in a legal document), from  (facing towards). Unlike in, the final -e of Latin faciem was conserved due to appearing in an established phrase, cf. and its variant. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Preposition

 * 1) toward, towards

Usage notes

 * Often replaced with the prepositions or more colloquially.