siniestro

/siˈnjestɾo/ · B2 · adj

accident

🚗💥 sounds like sin-yes-tro: a SIN, YES, a troubling TROll-ish act = evil

Latin sinister meant 'left', the side seen as unlucky and ominous. Spanish siniestro kept both the 'evil' sense and the 'accident' sense: an unlucky, ill-fated event, like a car crash in an insurance claim.

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