cálido

• Hyphenation: cá‧li‧do

Learned borrowing from Latin calidus (“warm, hot”). Compare the inherited doublet caldo.

cálido (feminine cálida, masculine plural cálidos, feminine plural cálidas)

1. warm

   Synonyms: morno, quente

Learned borrowing from Latin callidus (“wise, clever, cunning”).

cálido (feminine cálida, masculine plural cálidos, feminine plural cálidas)

1. (figurative) sagacious, astute, perspicacious

   Synonyms: sagaz, perspicaz, astuto

2. (figurative) passionate, ardent

   Synonyms: apaixonado, ardente, veemente

Borrowed from Latin calidus (“warm, hot”). Compare the doublet caldo. Cognate with English calid.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalido/ [ˈka.li.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -alido
• Syllabification: cá‧li‧do

cálido (feminine cálida, masculine plural cálidos, feminine plural cálidas)

1. warm

   Synonym: caliente

• “cálido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28