contaminado

/kontamiˈnado/ · B2 · adj

contaminated, polluted

☣️🏭 con + tamin- (touch) + -ado: 'touched together' with something dirty

From Latin contaminare, 'to defile by touching', built from con- (together) + tamen-, related to tangere (to touch). Contaminado is what results when something clean has been touched by something harmful. English contaminated is a direct cousin.

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