pudrir

/puˈdɾiɾ/ · B1 · verb

to rot

🍎🦠 pudrir shares a Latin root with putrid: putrere, to rot

From Latin putrere, to rot, via the variant podrir. English putrid and putrefy come from the same root, so pud- = putr- = rot. Related: podrido, rotten.

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