resfriado

/resˈfɾjado/ · B2 · adj

afflicted with the common cold

🤧🥶 resfriado = re- + enfriar (to chill): you got chilled, now you're sniffling

Resfriado comes from resfriar, built from re- (again, thoroughly) + enfriar (to cool, from frío, cold). Being thoroughly chilled gives you a cold, so the word names both the illness and the state of having caught one: estoy resfriado, I have a cold.

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