1st_ Naive person, silly, indolent. It appears to come from "baba" or "babear", perhaps from "bobo" or even from "babia", all with the suffix "_eca". See being in babia. 2o_ In literature is the name of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar's horse, in "El Cantar del Mio Cid"; and there is no reference in the work for the origin of the name, which can be a variant of the Gentile of Babia, although according to tradition came from Cañizar de Amaya (both in the present Autonomous Community of Castile and León), or a tribute to the horse of Guillaume d'O range in the "Chanson d'Antioche" called Bau'an, since in medieval Spanish its pronunciation 'bausán' was synonymous with "babieca , fool".
