Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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andar de zoca en colodra: Also walk from souks in colodros. Verbal locutions used by our classical writers and that are currently barely heard. It is not only to go from here to there, from the mint to mecca, but to go from bad to worse, like leaving Malaga to enter Malagón or going from Guatemala to Guatepeor.
crétula: Diminutive of crete, in Latin, clay, clay. A term used by archaeologists to designate clay seals that were used in ancient civilizations. The cretulas they now discover are like medallions of baked clay with very varied printed signs or images, which were used to seal documents or other objects.
senolítico: Medical term of Greco-Latin etymology used by researchers, derived from senex, old and lysis, dissolution. They call this drugs that eliminate senescent cells that resist apoptosis and have stopped dividing. One of the current lines of research works on the delay of the aging process.
de pe a pa: Colloquial adverbial locution already used in the sixteenth century in the Celestina that reminds us of learning in school: the p with the a, pa; with two semantic nuances. The first and most common: from beginning to end, from end to end, exhaustively, in detail, totally, entirely, in its entirety. The second most outdated: clearly, obviously, intelligibly or obviously.
tirarse el moco: Verbal locution similar to throwing the pisto or giving the pisto, bragging, boasting attributing merits that are not had, boasting to others of one's own worth or of one's own works considering them more important than they are. We usually use this recriminative expression specifying the reason .
salmorreta: Alicante sauce made with garlic, Muchamiel tomato (Mutxamel), Guardamar ñora, parsley, oil and lemon juice. It is used as a flavor enhancer in Paellas and Valencian rice dishes. The key to this really tasty mojo is in the ñoras, ball peppers whose seeds Christopher Columbus brought to Guadeloupe after his first trip.
buccellatum: Bite, sandwich, Latin term derived from buccella diminutive of bucca, mouth. Doughnut or very hard biscuit, made of wheat flour, salt, olives with aromatic herbs and water, baked several times to dehydrate it completely, which was eaten by the Roman legionaries in the campaign and then also by the sailors. This stale bread that the Roman soldiers carried in their backpack (sarcina) could last more than a year in perfect condition.
o élato: Oh fir! , the symbol of Christmas. Beautiful Christmas song of German origin.
catapún chin chin: Also catapum or cataplum. Colloquially, remote and indefinite time such as the times of Maricastaña, the catapún year or the catapún chin chin year, many but many years ago.
omnia extares: Sarcastic motto from Evergreen College of Olympia in Washington State whose mascot is a phallic-looking geoduck clam: Let everything hang, let everything show. What things do these Americans have! I guess they mean that we must know the dark zone of reality.
nuba: From the Arabic nawba, turn. Andalusian musical poetic genre created in the ninth century by the Iraqi musician, based in Córdoba, Ziryab to whom Paco de Lucía dedicated a musical album in 1990. This profane musical form is currently maintained in the countries of North Africa.
capillita: Term accepted at the congress of the ASALE (Association of Academies of the Spanish Language) held in November 2019 in Seville. With a certain derogatory sense group of people with related goals or interests. Also in Andalusia, a person who lives with enthusiasm the acts of the religious brotherhoods and participates in them.
efecto nocebo: Nocebo is the first singular person of the future imperfect indicative of noceo, harm, harm, be harmful, antonym of pleasure, please, delight, please, be pleasant. It is called nocebo effect in medicine to the set of symptoms and adverse effects that a drug generates when the patient considers it negative even when the drug is a placebo. Both nocebo and placebo show us how important our subjectivity is when dealing with disease.
mal de amores: Discomfort and psychic suffering of restlessness, restlessness, sadness, frustration and anguish because of some disappointment, lack of loving correspondence, fear of losing the beloved or some similar situation. I listen with pleasure to the evil of loves of Queen Juana who sings our Alalumbre : Queen Juana is spinning / bet on the window / . He fell ill with love sickness/ . Who could heal her!/ . . . Take the flake, throw the spindle/ and start again/ . Doña Juana is very sad / . God knows why it will be!
zaratán: From the Spanish Arabic çaratán, crayfish. Breast cancer, whose international day is celebrated today October 19. Also in Castilla-León cordelería, workshop or place of sale of twine
cuando pitos flautas, cuando flautas pitos: Critical and festive poem by the culterano Luis de Góngora about the capricious character of fortune and destiny and how very often things happen in a very different way than we expect. "Gives goods Fortune/ that are not written/ : When you whistle flutes / , when flutes whistles / . How diverse paths / are usually followed / in the distribution / honors and haciendas! / To some gives encomiendas / to others sambenitos / . When you whistle flutes, when you flute whistles."
petg: It is THE PET, polyethylene terephthalate that some colleagues have already talked about, a plastic material used in 3D printing, to which Glycol is added changing the chemical structure of the polymer and making it stronger, transparent and easy to handle.
gematría: Also gematria . Term derived from Hebrew: Hermeneutic system of Hebrew names and words of biblical texts, with a certain esoteric character associated with Kabbalah and based on the assignment of a numerical value to each sign of the alphabet.
isopsefia: Also isopsyphy. Of isos, igual and psephos, pebble, tejuelo that the Greeks used in the calculations. Technique transforming Greek words into numbers by adding the value of each alphabetic character. In this way with a number you could mention someone or something in a cryptic way. In Revelation, some say, John the Evangelist would allude to Nero with the number 666.
testis unus testis nullus: Legal locution: A single witness is worthless and more if he is an interested party. In the trial against Podemos deputy Alberto Fernandez, the supreme court has convicted him based on the testimony of a policeman who claims he was kicked by the deputy at a demonstration 6 years ago. This is part of the legal war (lawfare) against Podemos. Podemites are neither parasites nor lazy, as someone has said in our Dictionary, they simply reject privileges and therefore annoy those who have always had them.