Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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pirógrafo: From Greek pyro, fire and grapho, write, record, draw. Device to engrave, draw or write with heat, burning and marking the surface of the object.
kus dili: The language of birds, whistle, phonetic variety of Turkish that is used in the White Mountains near the Black Sea in North Anatolia. Whistle communication very similar to birdsong is also practiced in our Canary Islands and some other places in Greece, Mexico and Mozambique.
galaza: In my Asturleonese Alistan land they speak thus of a hollow, valley, trough, small urrieta, valiña, vallina, gavia, curratona, culaguina, chaira, cañeiru. . .
antídosis: Greek term meaning exchange, swap, change of fortune. It was one of the procedures to avoid the liturgy in classical Greece, that is, the obligation to pay for some public service with one's own fortune on the part of the wealthiest citizens. If anyone thought another was richer he proposed the change of fortune. If it were not accepted, a court would intervene in the assessment.
setabense: Gentilicio de Játiva (Xativa in Valencian), in Latin Saetabis, Levantine city of Valencia. A universal Setabense was the Baroque painter I have always admired, José de Ribera. The spagnoletto was called by the Italians for his low stature, a follower of Caravaggio's darkness and Van Dick's luminosity. He developed his art in 17th-century Naples.
muda de ropa: With my imagination I ever move to the landscapes of my childhood. Moulting can refer to the cyclic changes of something, be it the skin of a snake we saw in the field, the fallow, the pastures of the pasiegos or anything else. You can also refer to a woman who can't speak or quiet as some sexist song says. But in my postwar children's memories, moulting is the change of clothes we made on Sunday morning.
aguarales: Aragoneseism. Erosive geological formations in the form of clustered chimneys (fairy chimneys) in which the head is of some more resistant mineral. Geologists call this vertical karst erosion sufosión and the English piping (pipe, pipe) or duct formation as stalagmites even if their formative process is reversed (by erosion). The Aguarales de Valpalmas or Aguarales de Valdemiraz north of Zaragoza are magical landscapes.
valde: We can accept this term as a prefix. Valde- appears as a prefix for many toponymics in almost all the villages of my land and all of Castile such as Valdelayegua, Valdáguila, Valdetoros, Valdecucos, Valdelagua and is equivalent to valley.
etiolación: anglicism. The term etiolation, discoloration, was taken by the English of the French etioler, bleaching, weakening, withering, losing vigour. It is the process of developing plants in the absence of light with little or no chlorophyll, which gives them on weakened stems and leaves a white-yellow appearance similar to roots with little vascularity.
azoturia: Monday equine disease characterized by spasms and muscle stiffness especially in the hind limbs due to excessive accumulation of lactic acid and urea, vitamin deficiencies and hormonal imbalances, electrolytics and carbohydrate metabolization
caruncho: In my Alistan land, carcoma. They say around here that the wood gets the caruncho especially when it doesn't cut into a waning one. In Galicia they say so to the cuckold of rye, also fungo do rye, denton, horn, cornice, corvo fat, dente de can, cornicelo . In the film Black Purple (Sabela Iglesias and Adriana Villanueva) we talk about the bugle of my childhood. How I renegade the rye's m cool in the era when the year had been rainy! Good thing we ate wheat bread. Then the animals had strange behaviors and, of course, witches were blamed.
la boca: A veteran neighborhood doctor once visited him was told by a veteran ward doctor. -Good morning, ma'am. What's the matter with him? -Good, doctor, my mouth hurts. Well, sit on the gurney for a moment. And the lady started taking off her clothes. "But ma'am, haven't you told me your mouth hurts? Why are you naked? -Yes, Doctor, because it's the mouth my husband comes through.
ww 2: WW II, Second World War. With the same WW I logic, World War I. It must be acknowledged that the English manage well with the acronym, sometimes better than us.
amarniense: Period of the history of Egypt corresponding to the fourteenth century to . C. in which the capital was Ajenatón whose Arabic name was Amarna. Pharaoh Ajenatón, Akhenaton, also called Amenofis IV, promoted revolutionary changes in Egyptian society by taking away the power of the priests of Aton.
periurbano: From the Greek prefix peri, around, around and the Latin noun urbs urbis, city : which is around the city. This term used by urban planners and sociologists designates an undefined space between the countryside and today's expanding cities always in the point of view of speculators for their balls with the approval of local administrations.
pezguero: Pezguero : Office, practically disappeared from the villages of Castile, from which they made the fish or tar from the resin present in the roots of the moles of the cut pine trees and the female enebros. The tar was used to caulk the boats or to waterproof the wine boots.
a mensa et thoro: Legal Latinism . Table and bed. Bed and food. Legal separation or legal divorce without dissolution of marriage, therefore, in the meantime, spouses cannot remarri as they remain married. This legal figure protects them from the accusation of desertation or abandonment in regimes that do not allow divorce for religious or other reasons.
pensar lo que se dice: Always, friend Sancho, could have said the Ingenious Hidalgo, though I don't think he was picked up by his biographer. Say what you think, not always, friend Sancho, for it can bring us not a few headaches.
alipilus: Also alipilarius . Epilator. In classical Rome trade of slaves who removed pubic hair, armpits or other body parts in public baths. His regulars were the deservers. They used vosellae ( tweezers), resin and tar emplasts and yarn technique.
sigre: Integrated Packaging Management and Collection System . Ecological initiative of the non-profit pharmaceutical sector to prevent unused medicines and their packaging from contaminating the environment.