horrendo

/oˈrendo/ · B2 · adj

horrendous, horrific, dreadful, awful

👹😱 sounds like HORROR-endo: a horror ending, so horrendous

Horrendo comes from Latin horrendus, meaning 'to be shuddered at', from horrere (to bristle, shudder). It shares a root with English horror and horrid, so the Spanish word reads as horror plus an adjective ending.

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