Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

cinoscéfalas

  41

From the Greek kyon kynos, dog and kefalai, heads. Mountainous region of Greece in Thessaly where two eponymous battles took place, the first in the fourth century BC. B O between Thebans and Thesalians and in the second century BC . B O between Romans and Macedonians

  

espiciforme

  30

From latin spica, spike and shape, image, appearance. It is shaped like a spike.

  

céteris páribus

  46

Also fall páribus : Latinism used in the research sciences in which in experiments one variable is changed remaining the others. This absolute speech means : the rest remaining the same way

  

krypteia

  65

From the Greek kryptos , hidden , hidden . Proof of Spartan military education as a baptism of blood. Future soldiers were to survive in the field barefoot, without shelter, without food and only with a dagger. Hidden by day, at night they raided the farms of the Ilotas whom they stole and murdered with the acquiescence of the Ephors who declared a sacred war.

  

saltatrículi

  40

Masculine diminutive plural of saltatrix saltatricis : dancers , dancers , jumpers in Latin . This is how a dance group called itself. Saltatrícula is a genus of birds native to South America popularly called pepiteros or manchaditos.

  

respanchingarse

  42

Also repanchingarse, repanchigarse and repantigarse. Sit in comfort and relaxation, fill up on an armchair or sofa with scattering of arms and legs.

  

dimes y diretes

  65

Noun locution always used in the plural , formed with the verb to say and the enclitic pronouns -me and -te . Comments, discussions, exchange of banal and inconsequential opinions about something; gossip, chatter, gossip, chatter that does not usually lead anywhere, performed in a relaxed environment and without acrimony.

  

síndrome del sabio

  52

Savant syndrome, pathology that occurs in people with injuries, diseases or difficulties in brain development, compensated with extraordinary abilities in other areas such as music, art, mathematical calculation. . . , always attached to a portentous memory . The term idiot savant, idiot scholar, created by doctor John Langdon Down of the nineteenth century was corrected in the twentieth.

  

denisovano

  47

Hominid of Denisova, Siberian cave of the Altai massif in central Asia in which in 2010 fossils of this special hominid under study have been found, contemporary of Homo Neanderthal and Sapiens, which lived possibly from a million years ago until about 40 years ago. 000 . Scientists who are studying its DNA call it homo denisoviensis, homo altaiensis, homo sapiens ssp Denisova and in some other ways.

  

vale más un porsiacaso

  46

The full saying goes: It is worth more a porsiacaso than a hundred penseques or a hundred creíques; which obviously conveys to us that it is better to be safe than sorry or to be cautious than to have to remedy. The second part of the saying admits many variants, such as that a who thought, that a who was going to say it, that a who would have known, that a God forbid!

  

que te veo

  41

It seems like a warning to someone in whom there would not be much confidence of his correct behavior. This expression reminds me of that of a television advertisement from the 90s in which a professor of geology warned with a monotonic intonation to a distracted student: "The metamorphic rocks genetically called Cornubianitas, Gutiérrez, that I see him . . . . !"

  

gigurros

  59

Pre-Roman Asturian people . Pliny the Elder in his Natural History calls them gigurri and Ptolemy egurros (egurnion). They lived in the region of Valdeorras east of Ourense and southwest of Bierzo. Its capital was Calúbriga. In the Middle Ages they were also called giorres, eurres, iorres, in the valley of iorres, then Valdiorres who gave Valdeorras.

  

hermógenes

  39

As the companion points out, proper name of male of Greek origin, of Hermes, Hermes (Mercury), son of Zeus, messenger of the gods, god of eloquence, of trade and of thieves and genos, origin, birth, son, offspring: Son of Hermes, begotten by Mercury. Currently uncommon name, not so among classical Greeks.

  

tipejo de medio pelo

  34

Person of low social status who appears to be of a higher status. The derogatory and classist expression is an Americanism originated in the eighteenth century in the wearers of beaver hats of center hair more expensive and half hair cheaper. Half-haired hats were worn by those who aspired to the upper class. The expression is also used on this side of the pond to designate the person of little worth, merit or condition whether it is overvalued, most often, or not.

  

cierzo de hostigo

  73

Peninsular north wind particularly violent in the Ebro valley towards the Mediterranean. Of cercius and circius, wind of the Hispania Citerior, named so by the writers Cato the Censor and later Aulus Gelius, able to bring down an armed man. It is also said of the rain with blizzard

  

estatocisto

  39

Scientific term derived from the Greek kystos, bladder and statos, adjective derived in turn from hístemi, place standing, straighten, push forward or upward, standing, in equilibrium, stable. Equilibrium cells of plants and some invertebrates that allows them to grow against gravity. They also use light and their proprioceptive sense as a reference.

  

himalaya

  45

Transcribed from Sanskrit jima, snow and alaia, place, abode: The house of snow. Asian mountain range, the highest on our planet, with many summits of more than 8. 000 meters, in which many great rivers such as the Ganges, the Indo or the Brahmaputra are born and that many associate with Hindu and Buddhist spirituality.

  

spolia opima

  57

Spolia opima : Rich spolios , copious trophies consisting of weapons , armor and shield of the defeated enemy in individual combat replacing battles between armies . It seems that there were three counted cases of spolia opima because Rome with its legions had victory almost certainly. In the first Romulus killed Agronomus, king of the ceninetes, in the confrontation of the Rapture of the Sabines in which the Romans were short of women, as Plutarch tells us in Parallel Lives.

  

opimo

  65

As the companion says, this cultism derived from opimus means rich, fertile, copious, abundant, fruitful, full of resources, derived in turn from the noun ops opis, wealth, goods, abundance, which with a capital letter was the goddess of the earth and fertility of Sabine origin, the wife of Saturn, associated with our Cybele. It is also related to opus óperis, work, work as a source of wealth.

  

chacho

  59

In my asturleonesa land, boy's apheresis, used mostly by women to call someone in long distances and in an impersonal way

  

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