dorado
/doˈɾado/ · B1 · adj
various species of golden-colored fish
🥇🐟 From dorar, to gild: Latin de + aurum (gold), as in El Dorado
Latin deaurare, to gild (de- + aurum, gold), became Spanish dorar; dorado is its past participle, literally gilded. El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, uses the same word. Aurum also gives Au, the chemical symbol for gold.