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Where does “enfriar” come from?

enfriar (Spanish) comes from Latin infrigido, from Latin frigido, from Latin frīgidus, from Latin frīgeō, from Latin -eō, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₁yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

enfriar (Spanish): to cool, chill; to get cold

Definitions

  1. to cool, chill; to get cold

Ancestry of “enfriar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatininfrigidoI chill, cool
2Latinfrigidodative masculine singular of frīgidus; dative...
3Latinfrīgidus—
4Latinfrīgeō—
5Latin-eō—
6Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
7Proto-Italic-ējō—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
9Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
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