Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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donau: Die Donau, in German, the Danube, the second longest in Europe after the Volga. Derived from the Proto-Indo-European root danu- , river , from which also derives the danubius of which Pliny the Elder and Tacitus speak among others,
falencia: From the Latin verb I fail, to deceive, to conceal, to frustrate. Picking up the same semantic direction of the companions: Deception, error and as Americanism commercial bankruptcy and lack or deprivation of something, which also collects the RAE. I was struck by the use of this word, rather than lack, by Comrade John in his exhaustive and illustrative characterizations of the elements of the blood of Holy Saturday.
anka motz: Basque expression for pata palo, lame person. This is what his eighteenth-century contemporaries called the Basque sailor Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta, a half-man admiral tanned in a thousand battles, hero of Cartagena de Indias, who at 26 years old was already lame, manco and one-eyed.
picha española nunca mea sola: Popular expression something shabby and rude that is heard by the towns of my land and Castile especially at night of the holidays after drinking plenty of beer. The nationalist connotation of this saying reminds me of what our sailor and admiral Blas de Lezo used to say with derision: Every good Spaniard should always piss looking towards England.
lorem ipsum: I add my contribution to that of the companions: First words of a Latin text used since the sixteenth century as a test or draft in graphic design to visualize the final format to be edited. Lorem does not exist as a meaningful word. The word is dolorem, which is cut off. It is a fragment of Cicero's moral treatise De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Limits of Good and Evil). . . . Neque porro quisquam est , qui ( DO ) LOREM IPSUM quia dolor sit , amet , consectetur , adipisci velit . . .
xanteína: From the Greek adjective xanthos , yellow . Yellow dye substance extracted from some plants and lichens such as xanthoria parietina or wall parmelia, which in my land is also found in the aged bark of ash, walnut or black trees and in rocks exposed to the elements.
que si patatín, que si patatán: Colloquial locution with which the verbiage, the chatter, the talk and talk with little foundation without getting to the heart is denounced. It is also used to simplify and finish a more or less neat narrative or enumeration in the manner of these other expressions: that this than the other, and such and so, and tomb and tamba, and so and so on, here and there. . .
grogueta: Feminine groguet, Valencian diminutive of groc, yellow. Craft beer dedicated to Villarreal fans, the yellow submarine, which are also called groguets, who today are partying as well as Real fans.
vetusta: The city of the Regenta de Clarín . An old city, as its name suggests, of hypocritical and puritanical morality, dominated by a decadent aristocracy and a corrupt clergy, a reflection of nineteenth-century Spanish provincial society.
almogrote: Canarism heir of the almodrote . Pasta gomera that unites mojo picón and hard and grated goat cheese. This pate spread is one of the gastronomic delights of La Gomera that added to the medieval almodrote that the Sephardim still elaborate the tomatoes and peppers brought from America in the sixteenth century.
heftalita: Nomadic people so called by the ancient Greeks. One of the branches of the Huns originating from Central Asia that the Byzantines called the White Huns, not as ugly as the Europeans. From the end of the fourth century they expanded southwards dominating northern India and into Persia. In the second half of the sixth century they were eliminated by the Göktürk, another group of Central Asian nomadic peoples.
blemias: According to Pliny the Elder and the Roman mythological tradition, race of headless men with eyes and mouth on their chests who would have lived in ancient times in the area of Sudan and Ethiopia. The myth would arise from the warrior vestments of the Blemios, Blemites or Bleminges, a nomadic people who inhabited from the second millennium BC. C . in Upper Egypt and Nubia.
coeli: Singular genitive of coelum, orthographic variant of caelum, sky. It can also be the nominative or vocative plural because although coelum or caelum in singular is neutral, in plural it is masculine: coeli coelorum .
ser de fiar: Deserve trust, be worthy of the trust of others based on one's own mood or behavior, have credibility with them.
proterozoico: From the Greek proteros, first and zoon, living being. Precambrian geological time period of about two billion years, predating the Phanerozoic and post-Archaic. At the beginning of this period about two and a half billion years ago, (million up, million down because here scientists can not tune much), the first multicellular forms of life appeared and the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere increased. Single-celled forms began about four billion years ago. And how did life begin? Ah! Good question.
aria: Air in Italian . Musical piece born in the Renaissance sung by a soloist, usually with accompaniment of the orchestra and integrated into a major work such as an opera. Those of Italian composers such as Verdi's Donna è mobile or Bach's are well known. But for this time I'm going to stay with Dido's Lament, (when I am laid in earth), in the opera dido and Aeneas by the English composer Henry Purcell. A preciousness.
venciolos: Old Castilian or literary or from my northwestern land. We have already said that enclitic pronouns (those that are attached after the verb forming a single word) are used with the infinitive, the imperative and the gerund. With the other verb forms we must use the proclitics, that is, those that precede the verb forming then two words. Therefore we must say: He defeated them, defeated them, subdued them, subjugated them, overcame them.
eclampsia: Medical term derived from the Greek eklampo: shine, ignite, show off. Hypertensive disease of pregnancy that sometimes appears abruptly as lightning, as the ancients said. However there are always signs of preeclampsia. In more severe situations, seizures and coma may occur.
tercera de picardía: Harmonic resource already used in the Renaissance and especially in the Baroque, by which a musical piece of minor key ends in major chord. It is also called the third picarda by the French region of Picardy where it was frequent in popular music.
sxe: Acronym of the Straight Edge movement, born in the subculture of Hardcore Punk in the USA in the 80s, which promotes a life clean of alcohol, drugs and promiscuous sex with ecological, vegetarian and libertarian attitudes. The central X is their symbol that they put on the back of their hands, because in the beginning the underage members of a musical band were marked like this so as not to supply them with alcohol. The Straight Edge of Madrid said a few years ago: Freedom is not drunk, it is not smoked, it is not sniffed. Freedom is conquered. They had problems with justice because of the gag law.