caliente

From Latin calēntem, singular accusative of calēns, present participle of caleō.

caliente

1. hot

• caldu

• IPA^(key): /kaˈljente/, [kaˈljẽn̪t̪e]

From Latin calēntem, singular accusative of calēns, present participle of caleō.

caliente (plural calientes)

1. hot, warm (emitting heat or warmth)

   Antonym: frío

2. hot (close to finding or guessing something)

   Antonym: frío

3. (slang) horny (sexually aroused)

• The correct translation for ‘to feel hot’ is tener calor, not ‘estar caliente’.
• Caliente never means spicy, pungent, orally stimulating; translations of these terms are picante (all), picoso (only for spicy).
• For the sense of "sexually appealing", see candente,

• (warm): cálido, caluroso (weather)
• (horny): cachondo, excitado, calenturiento

• Aguascalientes
• calentísimo
• calentón
• calientísimo

• → Papiamentu: kayente

See the etymology of the main entry.

caliente

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of calentar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calentar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calentar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of calentar.

• “caliente” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.