cólera
anger, rage
Anger or rage
Encoding Strategies:
mnemonic
cholera
the disease
Cólera sounds like cholera0 — and someone suffering from that disease0 is probably pretty angry and irritable. So cólera means anger.
la cólera
anger, rage, fury
The hot, feverish feeling of cholera maps onto burning anger.
No pudo contener la cólera y golpeó la mesaHe couldn't contain his anger and slammed the table
Sus palabras me llenaron de cóleraHer words filled me with rage
montar en cólera
to fly into a rage, to lose one's temper
Literally "to mount into anger" — like climbing onto a horse, you get swept up and carried away by rage.
Montó en cólera cuando se enteró de la mentiraHe flew into a rage when he found out about the lie
cólera
cholera
The infectious disease cholera
Encoding Strategies:
linguistic
cholera
the disease
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-a
noun suffix
Cólera is a direct cognate of the English word cholera0, meaning cholera. Note that as the disease, it takes the masculine article: el cólera.
el cólera
cholera
The infectious bacterial disease. It takes the masculine article (el cólera) to distinguish it from la cólera (anger).
El cólera se propagó rápidamente por la regiónCholera spread rapidly through the region
Muchas personas murieron de cólera en el siglo XIXMany people died of cholera in the 19th century