Nevada, Florida and Colorado are all Spanish adjectives.. Do you know what the

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   TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years ago

   Nevada, Florida and Colorado are all  Spanish adjectives..  Do you know what they mean?

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      johnkhanvipposted 19 months agoin reply to this

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   tsmogposted 9 years ago

   Not sure of Florida and Nevada. I know Colorado means red, although in conversation it means an off red many times.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Colorado does not mean red...sorry!

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      tsmogposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I beg to differ with you! Spanish is pretty much a native language here in San Diego. It is used extensively.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      That may be, but I am a certified Spanish teacher and can tell you that "colorado" does not mean "red".  Rojo means "red".  However, it is possible that the term may mean "red" where you live due to changes in meanng over time.

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      tsmogposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Quoting Google "Colorado is a Spanish adjective that means “red.” The early Spanish explorers in the Rocky Mountain region named a river they found the Rio Colorado for the reddish silt that the water carried down from the mountains."

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      If you look in a Spanish/English Dictionary you will see that Colorado means "highly colored" or "of many colors".  All I can figure is that there must be different meanings for that word, but I have never heard it defined as "red".

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      tsmogposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you . . .

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Check out the response I left for Kristin Howe.  Turns out we both are right!!

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   Kristen Howeposted 9 years ago

   Nevada means snow, Florida means flourishing.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Colorado. named for the river, Spanish Rio Colorado, from colorado "ruddy, reddish," literally "colored," past participle of colorar "to color, dye, paint," from Latin colorare.  Florida means flowered.  Nevada: snowy

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   connorjposted 9 years ago

   
   
   Since indeed the Spanish derived names for specific regions of territory, we are honored with states that have these descriptive terms.
   Nevada is a Spanish term meaning "Snowy", from Sierra Nevada, meaning "snow-capped range of mountains". Sierra means "a range of mountains. Colorado is a Spanish term meaning ruddy or red. The Spanish named it this because of the muddy red color of the appropriately named, Colorado River. Florida indeed is quite simple; it is a Spanish term meaning flowery or florid because of the abundance of flowery plants observed by Ponce de Leon many years ago.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Good answer except that the discussion about Colorado meaning "red" is not exactly the case.  As I said in my response to Kristen, Colorado in Spanish actually means "colored", but can also mean"red"...although the word for red is "rojo".

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      connorjposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Indeed I think ruddy is the key to this...

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      Rochelle Frankposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I thought sierra meant "saw" (like the cutting tool) and the mountain range was named for its jagged sawtooth peaks.

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      connorjposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Rochelle, I believe you may indeed be correct, I should have texted: Sierra refers to a specific range of mountains...

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Google defines "sierra" as a long, jagged mountain chain

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   MonkeyShine75posted 9 years ago

   This is what I found about it
   Nevada comes from the Spanish word nieve meaning "snow-capped."
   
   Nevada is known by the three following nicknames: "Battle-Born State", "Sagebrush State" and the "Silver State". played an important part in state history
   
   
   Florida was named Pascua Florida by explorer Ponce de Leon on Easter in 1513. It means "Flowery Easter" or "Flowering Easter" (after Spain's "Feast of the Flowers" Easter celebration)
   
   Colorado is of Spanish origin, meaning "colored red." In 1861 congress chose Colorado as the name for the Territory

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   Readmikenowposted 19 months ago

   California is also a name that came from Spanish.  The name comes from Califia, a legendary queen of the island paradise described in a Spanish romance novel from the early 16th century.
   
   Florida was named by de Leon in 1513 and it comes from the Spanish word “florido,” which means “full of flowers.”

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