Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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dar clase: Instruct, teach, educate, communicate and at the same time receive knowledge, skills and values through exhibitions, lessons, conferences and dialogues. In these educational and formative processes, information is important, but perhaps it is even more important to learn to be a person with a critical spirit and to live respecting others in an attitude of solidarity. That's how my admired Paulo Freire understood education. Not only inform, but above all form.
poplíteo: From the Latin poples poplitis, hamstring, hock, area posterior to the knee. Anatomists speak of the popliteal cavita or fossa, popliteal muscle, artery, and popliteal vein. Everything is behind the knee, in the armpit of our legs.
pidgin: A term of disputed origin, one option makes it derive from pigeon english, English of pigeon (messenger), thus being an anglicism. As the comrades say, it is a simple and mixed language, the result of the collective encounter of speakers who do not know the language of their interlocutors, as in the case of the conquistadors with the indigenous peoples or of the merchants, for example Genoese, with other peoples of the Mediterranean. In these cases, the morphology and syntax are often very imperfect. A case of pidgin can be found in the Mediterranean sabir.
sabir: A mixture of the different Mediterranean Romance languages, devised and used mainly by Genoese and Venetian sailors and merchants in ports and coastal areas until the nineteenth century. The vocabulary was mostly Italian with Castilian, Sephardic, Catalan, Portuguese, Occitan, Greek, Turkish, and Arabic terms. Even Cervantes speaks of this language that was used when he was a prisoner in Algiers. Molière, in the Bourgeois Gentleman, gives us some detail in Scene X: If you know how to answer; I don't know how to tazir, tazir . (If you know, speak; if you don't be silent)
suripanta: The origin of this term, which has already been defined by the comrades, is in the refrain of the chorus girls of the operetta buffa of which Furoya speaks, "the young Telemachus" of the nineteenth-century writer Eusebio Blasco. The refrain in a false Greek sang thus: Suri panta , la suri panta , / macatruqui de somatén; / Sun Fáribun , Sun Faribén , / Maca Trúpiten Sangasimén . . . . The operetta was performed in 1866 at the Teatro Variedades on Calle de la Magdalena with great success. People began to call the girls in the chorus suripantas, with their cheerful and somewhat unkempt lives. Then came the RAE in 1925, much more rigid in its appraisals and sentenced: A vile, dishonest and unseemly woman.
truñaco: Also trick. Derogatory and augmentative of trickery, ugly and unpleasant thing, of little or no value and always less than expected, excrement, a piece of shit in the literal or figurative sense. What a trick! Young people often say when something disappoints them, whether it's a movie, a book, a party, or whatever.
camino de santiago: This is the name of the different routes that take us to Compostela (campus stellae), the field of the star that a peasant saw in the ninth century and where Alfonso II of Asturias located the tomb of Santiago el Mayor. Although the route par excellence is the French one that enters Navarre, parallel to the Duero, crosses La Rioja, Castile, León and enters Galicia. And since the pilgrims found their way at night through the Milky Way that goes from south to northeast, we ended up calling this Way of St. James as well.
ultreia: Also ultreya. Greeting from the pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago that already appears in the Codex Calixtinus: Let's go further, let's go forward, let's go to the end. The intellect used to reply: Et suseia : let us go higher. Many of today's pilgrims do not know this ancient greeting and greet each other with the "Good Way!"
pal arrastre: Shrinkage for the drag . A colloquial adverbial phrase that recalls the moment when the bull that has died or burst from exhaustion is dragged by the mules and taken out of the ring. In very bad conditions, with physical or mental exhaustion, in a very painful way, in a bad way, with verbs such as estar or queda algo or someone.
coger el tranquillo: For those who avoid the verb coger, pillar or encontrar el tranquillo a algo o de algo . To acquire a practice, habit, skill or ability to do something in some order of things. My three-year-old granddaughter is getting the hang of language. Some time ago, when I was playing to launch a ship into space, I said: one, two, three. Take off!
xorda: Asturian derived from the Latin follicare which gave folgar, to fuck and to loaf off. When the h was aspirated, it gave jolga and xolga . Revelry, revelry, revelry, festivity of the people of Asturias in which they talk, sing, dance, tell stories and drink cider, wine or other things.
vivir en frontería: Living close to the border and therefore with the problems, difficulties or sometimes I don't know if the advantages that come with the limits. I had a professor of philosophy who in his Aristotelian-Thomistic language used to say that "man is a being on the front"; But he wasn't referring to just any border, he was referring to the border of life. Speaking of Existentialism, he preferred this expression to that "man is a being for death".
poner los dientes largos: A verbal phrase that is also used pronominally: to put on someone's long teeth. To desire something fervently or to make another desire by presenting it to him in a very favorable light.
aguanoso: As the comrades say, watery, for Hisanoamérica aguachenco, very humid, very watery, very watery, which has or contains a lot of water. For Malaga, this is what they call those of Frigiliana, a beautiful white village in the region of the Axarquia that belongs to the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages in Spain, where the Festival of the Three Cultures is held at the end of August.
salir algo a pedir de boca: Verbal locution that is used when everything happens as we want, perfectly, very well, wonderfully, without setbacks, without any ifs and buts. We can also use some other verb, such as to happen, to happen, to come, to resolve. . .
lliviense: A town founded by legend by Hercules Líbicus, creator of the Pyrenees, a municipality in Girona located in France, about 6 km from the border of Puigcerdá in the Cerdanya valley and about 25 km east of Andorra. It comprises two other districts added: Cereja and Gorguja, with very few inhabitants.
figatell: From the Italian fegatello, diminutive of fegato, liver, a term introduced into our Levante by the ancient Genoese. One more of our culinary products from our diverse Spains, in this case in the area of Gandia. Lean pork, jowls and liver, all crushed, spiced and wrapped in small portions with the grill or pork redamage, grilled or, better, grilled.
anticitera: As the companion says, it is an island in the Aegean Sea located between Crete and the Peloponnese peninsula. They also name a strange ancient bronze artifact that Indiana Jones calls Archimedes' dial, found by divers in the early 20th century among the remains of a shipwreck off this island.
iconodulia: Also iconoduly, from the Greek eikon eikonos, image and douleia, servitude, (from doulos, slave, serf). Veneration of sacred images. The Catholic Church, since its confrontation with the iconoclasm of the Orthodox and later with the reformers, has defended the dulia or veneration of the saints through their images, the hyperdulia or veneration of the mother of Christ, and the latria or adoration of God and Christ, his son.
amoriano: Ammuriyya (Arabic) is a Phrygian city in Anatolia in west-central Turkey. Here was born the Byzantine emperor Michael II the Amorian or the Pselo (the Tartager), initiator of the Amorian dynasty, also called the Phrygian dynasty, from 820 to 867, the year in which his grandson Michael III the Drunk was assassinated after a drunken binge.