infernal — an adjective meaning “relating to the nether world of the dead” or “relating to hell”
infernal — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning
Since these words come to us from Latin’s infernus, the cognates in French, Italian, Portuguese, and other Romance languages, are all exact cognates or very similarly spelled (inf…
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