Today's WOTD is: "calor" = heat
In
Spanish, the noun "calor" is a masculine*
noun of Latin origin which means heat. The noun “calor” is
also often used to refer to warmth or ardour. The
diminutive form, “calorcillo” is commonly used to refer to
a pleasant warmth.
The
plural form of the noun “calor”, that is, “calores”
is often used to refer to hot flushes/ hot flashes.
*NB
The use of “calor” as a feminine noun, although still in
use in some parts, is not recommended in modern Spanish.
Some
commonly used expressions containing the word "calor"
are:
- Ahogarse de calor (to suffer suffocating heat);
- Al calor de (protected by/ helped by/ kept warm by);
- Asarse de calor (to suffer suffocating heat);
- Hacer un calor agobiante (to be excessively/ suffocatingly hot**);
- Hacer un calor canicular (to be excessively/ suffocatingly hot**);
- Coger calor (to warm up/ to get warm);
- Dar calor (to make you feel hot);
- Entrar en calor (to warm up/ to get warm);
- Freirse de calor (to suffer suffocating heat);
- Hacer calor (to be hot**);
- Pasar calor (to feel unpleasantly hot);
- Tener calor (to feel hot);
**NB
Only used to refer to weather/ ambient temperature/ heat (should not
be used to refer to the temperature of things).
Some
examples of the use of the word "calor"
are:
- Hoy se ahoga uno de calor (today is suffocatingly hot);
- Hoy se asa uno de calor (today is suffocatingly hot);
- Hoy se frie uno de calor (today is suffocatingly hot);
- Pasamos la noche al calor de la hoguera (we spent the night being kept warm by the camp fire);
- Ayer hacía un calor agobiante (yesterday was suffocatingly hot/ the heat was stifling);
- Ayer hacía un calor canicular (yesterday was suffocatingly hot);
- Esta sudadera me da mucho calor (this sweatshirt is making me feel very hot);
- Estoy cogiendo calor (I am warming up/ beginning to feel warm);
- Estoy entrando en calor (I am beginning to feel warm – after feeling cold!);
- Anoche hacía calor (last night it was quite hot);
- Anoche pasamos calor (last night we felt unpleasantly hot);
- ¿Tienes calor? (are you feeling hot?);
*NB
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in the link to hear the word pronounced.
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1 comment:
Nunca en este pais hace un calor canicular..
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