apasionado

/apasjoˈnado/ · B2 · adj

passionate

❤️‍🔥 apasionado = a + pasión (passion) + -ado: someone filled with passion

Spanish pasión comes from Latin passio, meaning suffering or strong feeling. Add -ado, like English -ed, and you get a person who has been taken over by passion. Sounds like a-PASS-ion-ado, so spot PASSION inside it.

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