calentamiento

/kalentaˈmjento/ · B2 · noun · m

heating

🔥🏃 calent- (heat, like caliente) + -amiento (act of) = the act of heating up

Calentamiento comes from calentar, to heat, built on caliente (hot), related to English calorie and caldron. The suffix -amiento turns the verb into a noun. Use it for a sports warm-up or for global warming (calentamiento global).

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