The Spanish word 'bandido' (meaning 'bandit') has an interesting journey from Gothic through Italian. It starts with the Gothic word 'bandwjan', which meant 'to signal' or 'indicate'. This evolved into the Italian word 'bandire', meaning 'to banish'. The connection makes sense when you consider that public proclamations were used to announce when someone was banished from a community.

In Spanish, this became 'bandir', meaning 'to proclaim an edict against' someone. The modern word 'bandido' is formed from 'bandir' plus the past participle suffix '-ido', essentially meaning 'one who has been proclaimed against' - in other words, an outlaw or bandit.

A simpler related Spanish word is 'bando', which means 'proclamation' or 'edict'. You can see how both 'bando' and 'bandido' share the connection to public announcements, with 'bandido' specifically referring to someone who has been proclaimed an outlaw.

The English word 'bandit' is closely related to 'bandido', both coming from the Italian 'bandito'. We also get the English word 'ban' from this same family of words - when something is banned, it's officially proclaimed to be prohibited, just like how a 'bandido' was someone officially proclaimed to be an outlaw.