agudo
/aˈɡudo/ · B2 · adj
sharp, pointed, acute
🔪📌 agudo comes from Latin acutus, the root of acute: the c became g and the t became d
Say acute and agudo one after the other and you can hear they are the same word. Spanish grammar uses the same image: an acento agudo is the acute accent (á), and a palabra aguda is a word stressed on its last syllable, the sharp end.