correo

/koˈreo/ · A2 · noun · m

email

✉️📮 correo = courier: both from correr, to run — mail is what the runner carries

Correo comes from the same root as English courier and Spanish correr (to run). Mail was once carried by runners, so the word for the runner became the word for the post itself. Today it also covers email: correo electrónico.

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