colorado

/koloˈɾado/ · B2 · adj

red

🔴 colorado = color + -ado (colored); red is the color par excellence

Spanish colorado comes from colorar, to color, itself from color. Over time 'colored' came to mean 'red' specifically, which is why the US state Colorado ('red-colored') was named for its reddish rivers and rock.

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