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Spanish word picante comes from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (To pick, peck, prick.)
*pikkōną (Proto-Germanic)
To pick, peck, prick.
*pikkōn (Frankish)
To peck, strike.
*picco (Latin)
(Vulgar Latin) I strike; I sting.
picar (Spanish)
(reflexive) to get angry, to get annoyed, to take offence. (reflexive) to turn sour. (reflexive, Mexico, with con) to get addicted, fascinated, enraptured. (slang, Mexico) to sexually penetrate, fuck. To bite; to sting; to stab; to wound. To chop. To itch. To pique. To rot; to decay; to eat away; to rust. To sting or be pungent to the lips or tongue, be spicy or hot.
picante (Spanish)
(of food) hot and spicy. Vulgar, risque.