![]() ![]() It’s very common for words starting with an f in Latin to start with an h in Spanish (farina/harina - flour, falco/halcón - falcon, ficus/higo - fig). You may have noticed that hoja has an h instead of the original f even though both follaje and hoja come from the same word. With the onset of the rainy season ( con la llegada de la época de lluvias ), mud and puddles are some of the biggest temptations for playful folk. You haven’t had a childhood if you haven’t played in the mud for hours with your friends. ![]() Interestingly enough, the word materia is also a Spanish word, and it means “matter” (matter and materia are cognates). Madera comes from the Latin materia (matter), a word that means origin, source or raw material. madera (wood)Īnother very typical autumn word, madera is something many of us still use to start a fire in the fireplace or light a bonfire (see both words below). If you want to know more about the verb caer (to fall down), have a look at word 48 below. In order to pronounce this word perfectly, remember that the h is silent while the j sounds just like an English “h.” There are few things more otoñales (autumnal) than leaves falling from trees ( hojas cayendo de los árboles ). The infinitive of escarcha is escarchar (to frost), but it also means “to candy” since it started being used as a culinary term. Just as frost means escarcha, frosty means escarchado. maíz (corn)Įven though a lot of people think corn is a summer cereal grain, the truth is that it’s harvested all year round. The very word vendimia comes from Latin vindemia ( vinea + demere = vintage). Notice how vintage comes from Latin vinum (wine), which gave us vino (wine) and vitivinícola (wine-growing). vendimia (grape harvest, vintage)Īlthough the word vendimia can be used with to generally mean “harvest,” most people use it to specifically refer to the grape harvest. The word colecta (collection, fundraiser, fundraising) also exists in Spanish, from the same root. cosecha (harvest)įrom the infinitive cosechar (to harvest, to reap).Ĭosecha comes from Latin collecta, which means collection. It’s translated as “fog,” but so is the word neblina, which when translated literally means “small fog.”Īctually, this makes a lot of sense, because in Spanish you use the word niebla if the visibility is one kilometer or less, while the word neblina is used if you can see over one kilometer.īesides, la niebla tiende a ser marrón (tends to be brownish) while la neblina tiene un color azulado (has a bluish color). ![]() The word niebla is quite an interesting one. (The year has four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter.) 3. Regarding weather, however, it’s translated as “season”:Įl año tiene quatro estaciones: primavera, verano, otoño e invierno. You probably know the word estación already with the meaning of station or stop. You have a true cognate with the word autumn. The word otoño comes from Latin autumnus. This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. You’ll get 66 Spanish fall words with their translations, examples and occasional interesting tidbits.īy the end of this post, you’ll be confident enough to talk with Spanish speakers about fall like a native! ![]() In this post, we combine the magic of autumn with the richness of Spanish vocabulary. Natural life around you changes in the blink of an eye from green to red, brown and yellow.Įvery single day is colder than the previous one until suddenly, you’re in the middle of your Halloween celebrations. Octo66 Spanish Fall Words to Cozy Up with This Autumn ![]()
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