Restante is what is left over when you take away everything else. It can mean extra. In Mexico the word extra is also used to mean restante.
Restar is to subtract. What is left over after subtracting is the restante.

Here’s a word a saw the other day, afición. I had never seen or heard it before so I was curious.
Afición is liking or affection. Afecto is another word for this.

Impermeabilizante is the weather proofing your put on your roof to keep the rain from coming in. In much of Latin America the roofs are mostly flat. Though they have some drainage from them, it is best to put the water proofing down so that your roof does not leak.
I had a really hard time […]

I had learned that gripe was more the word for the flu, but that it is also the word commonly used for a cold. This week I finally learned that catarro was a better word for the common cold.

A lady came to see the doctor today and complained of hinchazón in her legs. They were swollen.
The verb is hincharse.

When giving directions to someone, derecha is right and derecho is straight.
When talking about personal or legal rights, derechos is the correct word.

With the doctors today we dealt with a lot of numbness in hands and feet. Therefore I learned the word entumecido which is numb.
To go numb, or to become numb is entumecer.

Reaching into the medical vocabulary is always intimidating. This week I am assisting a medical team by doing some basic translating. It is amazing to me how that there are many common words we use almost every day in English that I have no idea as to how to say in Spanish.
Today I had to […]

I was talking with a friend who grew up in Argentina. She told me that there were quite a few gypsies there. She told me this in English and I never really thought what the word for gypsy would be in Spanish. Tonight on a TV show I saw the word gitano used for gypsy.
According […]

Hipoteca is a mortgage. I have not been able to figure out what the root words for hipoteca means, but mortgage means ‘dead pledge.’
Hipoteca is similar to the word used in many other languages.