California, N.: From Latin "calor", Meaning "heat" (as In English "calorie" Or Spanish "caliente")

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California, n.:
From Latin "calor", meaning "heat" (as in English "calorie" or
Spanish "caliente"); and "fornia'" for "sexual intercourse" or
"fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot
sex."
-- Ed Moran

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