Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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superga: Hill near Turin next to the Po River in northwestern Italy where the Basilica of Superga is located, beautiful church in which lie kings of the House of Savoy. Next to it a monument commemorates the Superga Tragedy, a plane crash in which Il Grande Torino players died in 1949.
a porfía: Adverbial voiceover. With emulation and competition, our Dictionary says well. With insistence and perseverance and in competition and rivalry with other people. This locution reminds me of the songs of the "month of flowers" of my post-war childhood and dictatorship: "Come and let's all go / with flowers to Mary / , with flowers to porfía / , what our mother is" .
anancasia: Ananke in Greek means necessity both in the sense of poverty and lack and of inescapable destiny or rational or moral exigency. Her personification gave the goddess Ananke or Anankaia, goddess of destiny that no man or god can avoid, mother of the Moiras, according to Pythius, the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
anancasia: Ananke in Greek means necessity both in the sense of poverty and lack and of inescapable destiny or rational or moral exigency. Her personification gave the goddess Ananke or Anankaia, goddess of destiny that no man or god can avoid, mother of the Moiras, according to Pythius, the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
pietismo: Of pietatis pietatis, piety, devotion, compassion, moral rectitude. Religious tendency within Lutheranism, begun in Leipzig at the end of the seventeenth century, which emphasizes subjective religious experience versus doctrinal principles, religious experience based on the reading and literal interpretation of the Bible, on shared prayer and an ascetic life contrary to any pleasure or delight. Immanuel Kant was educated by his mother in this religious attitude. Later it would evolve into Deism, the religious position of the Enlightenment.
anancasia: Psychiatric term not widely used. Scholars of psychism prefer to talk about personality or anancastic disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder (TPOC) characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with order and perfectionism with high levels of self-demand projected also to others, rigidity in attitudes and behavior to cover up a great insecurity. Immanuel Kant had an ananchastic personality, always obsessed with schedules and all kinds of details regarding his health; he never wanted to change his daily routines; his punctuality was proverbial; on his evening walks he always breathed through his nose; his rigid sense of duty was also projected onto the categorical imperative of the Critique of Practical Reason.
albertina: Diminutive of Alberta, proper name of German origin, much less used than its masculine Alberto. Die Albertina is also a beautiful museum in the centre of Vienna. With this name was also known until the Second World War the University of Königsberg in which Immanuel Kant studied and taught, founded in the sixteenth century by Albert I of Prussia. The Immanuel Kant State University of Russia is considered heir to the Albertina. It is in Kaliningrad, (Königsberg sounds better), by the Potsdam Agreement.
el burro delante para que no se espante: A colloquial saying that we usually use with derision as a reproach when we observe that someone mentions himself in front of others. Saying "me and you have to talk", for example, the RAE does not consider it incorrect but it is considered popularly impolite, as well as placing oneself in any situation in front of others.
seme: Second person singular of the imperative of the verb to be with the first-person enclitic pronoun. Like when we say to someone: Be me an educated person, please! If we considered it separate: (I am), it would be two correctly ordered clitic pronouns, not so if we reversed their order as in the somewhat vulgar and funny expression: I went to heaven.
audax: The Latin adjective that defines the companion has reminded me of my childhood. In the post-war Francoist schools through especially the Álvarez Encyclopedia, whose author Antonio Álvarez Pérez was born in my land in Ceadea, a small town in Zamora, in school, I say, we learned everything and also our History. Yes, one of the assassins of our hero, Viriato, was named Audax. The other two Ditalcón and Minuro. Their names were etched in my memory forever. Also the "Rome does not pay traitors" thing. Although the latter does not have the credit of all historians.
dar pábulo: Verbal voiceover. Encouraging something negative, false, inconvenient, or harmful. The Latin pábulum means fodder, food, the pabulum, which sustains, preserves and sustains life or anything else. The expression is used when that thing or issue is considered negative. That is why our Dictionary synonymizes it with adding more fuel to the fire or favoring something negative.
plinia: A genus of plants in the Miraceae family named after Pliny the Elder, author of Naturalis Historia and killed in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. One of the last to be identified has been the Plinia Puriscalensis, a tree endemic to the La Cangreja natural park southwest of San José de Costa Rica about 40 kms from Santiago de Puriscal, a tree that has the peculiarity that it bears fruit on the trunk.
esmorzaret: Valencian lunch with roots in the Levantine Horta in which the llauradors began their tasks at sunrise. This second most consistent breakfast is called hamaiketako by the Basques, the eleven o'clock. For my Asturian land in the harvest of the summer cereal "we took ten o'clock". Thus we rested and regained strength. Then in the afternoon "we took five o'clock". How rich was the raw onion with bread and chorizo!
kangina: Lenticular clay container similar to a loaf inside which the grapes are kept for 6 months in Afghanistan underground or in basements. Afghans have used this method of preservation since time immemorial. It is actually two clay bowls with straw dried in the sun and joined.
hipotoxota: Also hypotoxote. Of hippos, horse and toxotes, archer. Highly mobile horse archer who rode in front of the cavalry in support and behind the hoplites, but never on the front line.
eolípila: From the Greek aiolos, fast, agile and pyle, door. Thermal machine created by the first-century Greek mathematician Heron of Alexandria not studied until modernity, an antecedent of the steam engine.
pa la saca: Popular and humorous expression used by the commission agents of the city of Madrid who brought masks during the pandemic, much commented these days in the media and social networks. "For one's own portfolio"; that was where the commission went, which was not turkey mucus.
san chin chon: Others say San Chin Choon, San Chin Chun or San Chinchón. It is not that this beautiful town in Madrid has been sanctified. No. It is the alleged name of the Chinese or Malaysian businessman who provides masks for the city of Madrid in times of pandemic.
e tan e epi tas: Either with it (the shield) or on it, they said to the Spartan hoplites when they were given their shield (to hoplon), a fundamental defensive weapon of almost one meter in diameter and about 8 kilos. If you don't come back from combat with him or over him, you better not come back. You will not be recognized as a citizen of Sparta, perhaps as an ilota.
dos y pingada: Zamorano post-quaresmal dish on Easter Sunday: Two fried eggs with two or three lean ones passed through the pan (slices of semi-cured ham) with a good slice of bread.