The Spanish demasiado (“enough!”) comes from the Latin adverb magis, meaning “more!”. From that same root magis, we also get the English… master. It goes to show you: a master is really...
To chisel, and the Spanish salchicha (basically, hot dog) both come from the same root: the Latin secare, meaning “to cut, sever, decide”. Other English words some from the same Latin root se...
Thursday and Jueves, like the other days of the week, come from the Germanic and Latin names for the same God: the King of the Gods, the God known as “Zeus” to the Greeks, and sometimes as �...
If he is fuming, he is smoking — literally. And it is, subtly, the same word in Spanish. “To fume” comes from the Latin root fumus (“smoke”) from which we also get the common Spanish wo...
Buscar (Spanish for “to ask for”) comes from the Latin poscere (“to ask urgently”). In the transition from Latin to Spanish, the word was definitely weakened since buscar doesn’t have a...
The Spanish for “leather,” cuero, comes from the Latin corium meaning, “leather or hide.” From that root, we get a few English words, including… cork. A cork is made from the the hide o...
The Latin pensare meant “to weigh”, in both senses: “to weigh something, such as gold, to get its value, usually to make a payment” or “to think about something deeply”. From this wor...
https://spanishetymology.com/pensar-pesadilla-and-pensive-compensate/
The Latin sounds for “sh” — and similar variations, like “ch” and “ss” — became a “j” sound in Spanish. Thus, the English sherry is nearly identical to the Spanish jerez! Thes...
The Spanish buitre doesn’t obviously look like the English word it means: “vulture,” both of which are from the Latin vulturis. But looking below the surface, we see the similarity: the b-t...
Coquetear, the Spanish verb meaning “to flirt,” comes from the French coq which means “cock” — in both senses — from which we also get the English word cock, albeit with a slightly di...