niñera

/niˈɲeɾa/ · B1 · noun · f

babysitter

👶🚚 niño (child) + -era (the woman who handles it) = the child minder

Spanish -era/-ero marks the person or thing that handles something, as in panadera (bread → baker). A niñera minds children. The truck takes the same name because it carries a load of small cars, like a minder herding kids.

More Spanish words · How Spanish works