Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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piranómetro: De pyr pyrós, fuego del sol y metron , measured. Apparatus for measuring solar radiation on the earth or on any other surface. They also call it solarimeter and actinometer, from aktis aktinos, ray of the sun. Similar ones are periheliometer, pyriheliometer and periheliograph which quantifies radiation in a graphic record. The measurement is in kilowatts per square meter. All these instruments are useful in meteorology and photovoltaic technology.
tesgüinadas: Festivals of the Rarámuri or Tarahumara in which tesgüino is consumed, a drink obtained from the fermentation of corn, wheat or fruits and in which the group is cohesive, community problems are solved and young people marry. This sacrificed people and survivor of countless historical difficulties lives in a complicated natural environment in the Sierra Madre Occidental of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
helofilia: From the Greek helos , hollow, marshy place and philia , inclination . Preference of some plant formations for wetlands and swampy areas, developing above water.
extravaganza: Term halfway between Spanish and Italian. In the first, extravagance, in the second, stravaganza. Quality of extravagantness, behavior, attitudes and ways of being of some that go out of the ordinary, of normality, most of the time to attract attention. This is how Vivaldi titled a group of concerts dedicated to his patron, the Venetian nobleman Victor Delfin and I think it is also the nomination of a current Madrid musical group of gothic heavy metal.
son habas contadas: Popular expression that refers, as our Open Dictionary points out, to things that are clear and patent and that do not admit discussion. And also to things of an exact and usually scarce quantity. The origin of the expression seems to be in the votes of certain ancient institutions, both religious and secular, to make community decisions, using white beans for yes and black beans for no. It seems that Freemasonry also used this procedure.
zeitgeist: German term that Hegel devised and used other philosophers of the nineteenth joining two words, very German, of this language: Zeit, chronological time and Geist, spirit, as the companion says. The Spirit of the times, that is, the socio-cultural identity, the tendencies and characteristics of human culture in each historical moment at the global level or more in particular. Other terms close to the German idealist philosophers of this century are Volkgeist, the spirit of the people, the feeling that a people has of themselves, of their values and history or Nationalgeist, the national spirit, the national identity.
bachiano: This adjective, relative to or referring to Bach, will only appear in the Musical Dictionaries. If we do not specify otherwise, we refer to the great master, to a beautiful musical god, to Juan Sebastián Bach. We do pronounce Bajiano, compañero furoya, because in German it is pronounced Baj and means stream.
perimortem: Latinism adjective or adverbial, (at the time of death, during death), frequently used in forensic medicine and anthropology, as well as its companions antemortem and postmortem (before and after death). Researchers from the Midnight Terror Cave in Belize point out that some bone lesions of the human skeletons found may have occurred perimortem in the Classic Maya period.
algodoncillo: Asclepias curassavica . This plant of the asclepiadaceae subfamily, which I see also characterize some companions, has been called in many ways as Spanish flag (for the colors of its flowers), oleander, snake grass, venenillo. The latter by the toxics of its leaves devoured by the caterpillars of the monarch butterflies (danaus plexipus) that defend them against predators. Its latex has also been used in folk medicine to remove warts and I believe it has been studied as a chemotherapeutic agent. I don't know the results. I guess as in other plants (the yew tree, the stonebreaker). . ) slows down cell division.
ibón: Term of the old Aragonese related perhaps with the Basque ibai (river), which passed into The Castilian with the meaning of Pyrenean lake of glacial origin, as our Open Dictionary tells us. In Aragonese it is any lake or pond something large of water.
ibón: Term of the old Aragonese related perhaps with the Basque ibai (river), which passed into The Castilian with the meaning of Pyrenean lake of glacial origin, as our Open Dictionary tells us. In Aragonese it is any lake or pond something large of water.
culantro: That's what they call in Extremadura, Andalusia and other parts of Spain and I see that also in Latin America cilantro (coriandrum sativum), culinary aromatic herb, displaced by parsley in Spanish cuisine since the fifteenth century because it was considered cursed by the Inquisition to be used by heretics and infidels, Moors and Judaizers. Fortunately, we have recovered it.
climatérico: From the Greek klimakter, step, step and from klimax, ladder, ascending scale of any process. Adjective of climacteric, which in addition to the critical and dangerous periods and times, as our Open Dictionary tells us, is said of the fruits that once harvested continue to ripen.
fósil viviente: A non-scientific term coined by Charles Darwin to refer to living things that have stood the test of time in millions of years with hardly any changes. Examples from the plant world are ginkgo biloba or wollemia nobilis. The latter is an Autralian conifer discovered in 1994 by David Noble in the Australian region of Blue Mountains in Wollemi Park, which was only known through fossils.
citolar: Term of Galician-Portuguese, medieval Romance language, which from the fifteenth century gave rise to Galician and Portuguese. Playing the zither, a stringed musical instrument from which the guitar derives even in its name. The term appears in The General Estoria of Alfonso X the Wise and his school of translators of Toledo.
diamastigosis: Diamastigoo, whip brutally. Ritual of worship to the goddess Artemis Ortia: The irenes or Spartan ephebos had to get a cheese from the altar of the goddess with the opposition of adults provided with whips. The blood shed in honor of the goddess did not normally reach the river but, in Cicero's words, it once did, especially when the ritual also became a spectacle.
pítimas: Equatorianism. Adverb formed with the Quichua piti, a little and the Castilian more. This is what the conquenses of Ecuador usually say after taking a glass of the water of pítimas, a refreshing drink and say that medicinal, made by some nuns: A little more! It is an infusion of valerian, rose petals, lemongrass and some other herbs.
alcornoque morisco: This is one of the many ways people name the cork tree. They also call it Extremadura cork oak, casquizo cork oak, cork oak, migueleñas acorns, bell. pigeons, bell. martinencas , chaparro , cork , oak sobrero , sobreiro . . . Botanists, more serious themselves, call him quercus suber. Its bark, cork, defends it from fires and has many industrial uses. The most common and traditional, the cap of wine bottles. For my tierruca there are not many, but a little further south yes, in the Arribes, Salamanca, Extremadura and especially in our sister land, Portugal. The Quercus are my favorite trees, the oaks, the holm oaks, the cork oaks. How Stoic they are!
para tirar cohetes: Our Levantines are very fond of fireworks especially in parties and celebrations. Also in our Castilian and Leonese villages rockets used to be fired at weddings and other parties. Not now, there are a lot of fires. But the expression also has a figurative sense that alludes to the cause for which rockets are thrown: celebrate something, rejoice, be happy for something that is right or worthwhile or simply recognize that something is good. Although it almost always has a negative form: Not being or being something to shoot rockets means that it is not as good as presumed or as they say.
gringolandia: The suffix -landia derives from the Germanic land, (land, country), the RAE says site of or place of , frequently used in Nordic place names. Country of gringos , USA . Around here Yanquilandia is preferred especially among people on the left and with derogatory nuances that I think also exist among Ibero-Americans.