The English abhor is a SAT word meaning “to hate”, as we all know.
But who would’ve thunk that it’s related to the common Spanish word aburrir, meaning “boring”?
Aburrir comes directly from the Latin abhorrere meaning exactly what it seems to.
And Ahhorrere itself brings us other English words, like horror.
So — to be boring is actually horrible, by definition!
Nerds love to pattern-match, to find commonalities among everything. Our approach to learning languages revolves (the same -volve- that is in “volver”, to “return”) around connecting the Spanish words to the related English words via their common etymologies – to find the linguistic patterns, because these patterns become easy triggers to remember what words mean. Want to know more? Email us and ask:
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