cuidadosamente

/kwidaˌdosaˈmente/ · B2 · adv

carefully

🥚 cuidadosa + mente = careful + -ly (cuidado = care)

Cuidado means care, and it comes from Latin cogitatus, meaning thought, so being careful is thinking it through. Spanish makes adverbs by adding -mente to the feminine adjective, the way English adds -ly: cuidadosa + mente.

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