húmedo

/ˈumedo/ · B1 · adj

humid, moist, damp

💧 húmedo = humid, both from Latin humidus, wet (the h is silent)

Spanish and English took the same Latin word, humidus, from umere, to be wet. Drop the h sound and swap -id for -edo: humid becomes húmedo. The stress falls on the first syllable, ÚH-meh-doh.

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