Meaning

colar

  1. to sift, to strain, to filter
  2. (Cuba, Dominican-Republic) to prepare coffee
  3. (colloquial) to dupe, hoodwink
  4. (colloquial) to missay, say wrongly
  5. (colloquial, reflexive) to fall for, fall in love
  6. (colloquial, reflexive) to sneak into, to crash
  7. to sift through, comb through

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
co‧la
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkola/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Cognate to French queue and Italian coda.

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