{"id":24645,"date":"2026-06-26T13:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24645"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:36:06","slug":"hot-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24645","title":{"rendered":"Hot &#038; Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian word <strong>caldo<\/strong> sounds similar to the English word <strong>cold<\/strong>, but actually means <strong>warm<\/strong>, <strong>hot<\/strong> and other things.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ilfogliani\/3765353647\/in\/photolist-6JJqst-NmC6Bu-oLdbMh-5Je56D-xFSB3-T9gkbp-RUi41K-RUi3U2-RUi45n-T9gk1K-6BLPYc-RUi3XP-T9gkcr-T9gk8D-RUi47r-RUi4gp-RUi4ea-RUi49a-T9gk2X-RUi4cr-nHU2pZ-T9gjZ2-2nWLrjG-CCEcTj-6PyZmp-f73rT-5JHSMz-tZyjXw-2rJE1QS-9Jn9QX-rzNMA-2rww6Rn-LMpz8M-bkjBSc-w1NeQh-2rFxNbq-ByhSbB-4ZiLFZ-2numbjm-4kHzh9-7LgsvZ-uPxJi-6FBmhD-xazn2y-6UKG7t-2rwBJDn-4q4iBc-3j3kFn-beosma-paQsbp\" title=\"caldo.. molto caldo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2490\/3765353647_661fcc6a09_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"caldo.. molto caldo\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caldo<\/strong> [\u02c8kal.do] in Italian means warm, hot, heat, fervour or ardour. It comes from Latin <em>calidus<\/em> (warm, hot, fiery, fierce, vehement, spirited, impassioned, rash, eager, inconsiderate), from <em>cale\u014d<\/em> (to be warm or hot, to glow, etc), from Proto-Italic <em>*kal\u0113\u014d<\/em>, from Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u1e31leh\u2081-<\/em> (hot, warm) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/caldo#Italian\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Related words in other languages include <strong>caldo<\/strong> (soup) in Chavacano, <strong>caldo<\/strong> (hot, warm, broth, juice) in Galician, <strong>caldo<\/strong> (broth, stock, juice) in Portuguese, and <strong>caldo<\/strong> (clear soup, broth, stock, wine, swill, sludge) in Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/caldo\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Words from the same Latin roots include <strong>caldre<\/strong> (it is needed, it is necessary, to have to, to need to, must) in Catalan, <strong>caler<\/strong> (to be necessary) in Occitan, <strong>calor<\/strong> (heat) and <strong>caldera<\/strong> (cauldron, boiler, caldera) in Spanish, <strong>chauffer<\/strong> (to heat, warm (up), tease) and <strong>chaudron<\/strong> (cauldron) in French, and <strong>cauldron<\/strong>, <strong>calorie<\/strong>, <strong>chafe<\/strong>, <strong>scald<\/strong>, <strong>caldera<\/strong> (a large crater formed by collapse of the cone of a volcano) and possibly <strong>chowder<\/strong> in English [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/caldo\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Words from the same PIE roots include <strong>lauw<\/strong> (lukewarm, cold, indifferent, nice, cool, chill) in Dutch, <strong>lau<\/strong> (cushy, easy) in German, <strong>flou<\/strong> (fuzzy, blurred, blurry, unclear) in French, <strong>flauw<\/strong> (boring, tasteless, uninspired, weak, vague, hazy, bland) in Dutch, and <strong>hl\u00e6r<\/strong> (warm, mild) in Icelandic, <strong>liev\u00e4<\/strong> (mild, moderate, slight) in Finnish, and possibly <strong>lukewarm<\/strong> in English [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/caldo\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the English word <strong>cold<\/strong> comes from Middle English <em>cold<\/em> (cold, cool, lifeless), from Anglian Old English <em>cald<\/em> (cold), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*kald<\/em> (cold), from Proto-Germanic <em>*kaldaz<\/em> (cold), from <em>*kalan\u0105<\/em> (to be cold, to freeze), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*gel-<\/em> (to be cold, to freeze) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cold#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Related words include <strong>koud<\/strong> (cold) in Dutch, <strong>kalt<\/strong> (cold, chilly, calm) in German, <strong>kold<\/strong> (cold) in Danish, and <strong>cool<\/strong> in English [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cold#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian word caldo sounds similar to the English word cold, but actually means warm, hot and other things. Caldo [\u02c8kal.do] in Italian means warm, hot, heat, fervour or ardour. It comes from Latin calidus (warm, hot, fiery, fierce, vehement, spirited, impassioned, rash, eager, inconsiderate), from cale\u014d (to be warm or hot, to glow, etc), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,330,100,102,104,107,109,111,113,116,124,128,10,15,26,32,33,41,44,45,46,202,64],"tags":[642,643,646,164,158,645,309,138,281,163],"class_list":["post-24645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catalan","category-chavacano","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-finnish","category-french","category-galician","category-german","category-icelandic","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-occitan","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-portuguese","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-proto-west-germanic","category-spanish","tag-caldo","tag-cold","tag-cool","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-heat","tag-italian","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24648,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions\/24648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}