caliente
/kaˈljente/ · A2 · adj
hot, warm
🔥☕ From Latin calere, to be warm: same root as calorie, a unit of heat
Caliente shares its root with calorie, cauldron and scald, all from Latin calere (to be warm). The cal- at the start is the heat part; -iente is the Spanish ending for doing or being, like English -ing. So caliente = heat-ing.