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Btw, "Avería" means "failure" in spanish

• OseArp 10mo ago
  "Average" comes from Arabic for "damaged goods."
• pimlottc 10mo ago
  This is mentioned: > I call it Avería – which is a Spanish word related to the root of the word ‘average’. It actually means mechanical breakdown or damage. This seemed curiously fitting, and I was assured by a Spanish friend-of-a-friend that “Avería is an incredibly beautiful word regardless of its meaning”. So that's nice.
• treetalker 10mo ago
  Arabic ʕawāriyya for (goods) damaged in transit > Catalan avaria for a breakdown, damage > Spanish avería for a breakdown, something that has failed https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avería https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avería