Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

alipori

  40

As companion Inés says, it is the shame of others that we feel in the face of the waste or stupidity that others say or do. Some also say lipori and even lipid, although RAE recognizes alipori. The term is said to have introduced it to the Italian Eugenio dOrs. Others prefer anglicism cringe or grima, but the latter is rather a repellent, aversion or physical rejection.

  

agenda setting

  42

A term coined by American researchers Maxwel McCombs and Donald Shaw in the 1960s. Planning the communication that the factual powers perform on the media to fix what should be news and what is not. Thus every day they help us to think, to shape our vision of reality and even to whom to vote in an election. Here in Madrid works very well : Every day we are told that a certain party of recent creation is very bad, but that very bad.

  

ptosis palpebral

  41

From Greek ptosis, fall and Latin palpebralis, referring to eyelids. Medical term : eyelid drop whose most common cause is atrophy of the muscle that lifts it. Our admired Jorge Luis Borges had this problem next to the hereditary progressive blindness consummated in 1955 that caused him to lose the world of appearances and readers opened luminous spaces of happiness to us.

  

girificación

  33

From Greek gyros, round, curved. A process in which the convolutions and grooves of the cerebral cortex form to increase their surface area in minimal cranial space. In this folded bark of the different lobes about three or four millimeters thick lie our superior functions, thought, memory, imagination, decision making. . .

  

báratro

  54

In Greek bathers, abyss, chasm in which the Athenians threw the evildoers. Then it went on to mean the Hades, the underworld always associated with the depths of the earth, the abode of the dead, the Averno, the Tartarus, the Erebo, the Hell of Christians as a place of punishment for wrongdoings.

  

macrosomía

  53

Etymologically large body, of makrós, large and soma, -atos, body, living organism. In medicine it is thus called the excessive development of the body or some of its parts as happens in children born with more than four kilos of weight. Historians speak of the genital macrosomia of Ferdinand VII, the felon king who boasted about it in Madrid's brothels.

  

anemospilia

  41

From Greek anemos, wind and pylia, door, grotto, cave. The cave of Eolo, the cave of the wind. Archaeological site of a Minoan temple on the island of Crete destroyed by an earthquake around 1700 a. C. It was discovered by Greek archaeologist Yannis Sakellarakis in 1979 about 7 kilometres from Knosos Palace.

  

crinolina

  41

Half-cage flared with hoops replacing the countless petticoats used by women accommodated in the nineteenth century to fly skirts or skirts.

  

trabécula

  47

Medical term derived from Latin trabs trabis , beam , trabe , with the suffix of diminutive former -culum -a -um : small beam . In anatomy it is a structure as networked filaments, present in different tissues.

  

tan es así que

  56

Better so much so. An angry comparative construction in which the discourse is reaffirmed immediately before showing some evidence in the second part of the comparison. The expression would be equivalent to this other : See if it is true what I tell you that. . .

  

tal que así

  36

Modal adverbial locution : in this way that I show you, in the way I tell you, as well, in this way, (indicating the speaker the mode to the listeners).

  

linteum iactare

  113

Throw in the towel, give up, give up a fight or task. The expression has no pugilistic but thermal origin. In the Roman public baths some powerful patricians stood in front of some beautiful young man. If the efebo made another knot to the towel he rejected the proposition. If I dropped it, I'd accept it. Not much has been discovered a Turkish bath in which Antinoo threw his towel at Emperor Hadrian. "Hic Antinous Hadriano linteum suum iactavit", reads the inscription.

  

tudanca

  40

Native bovine breed originating in the Cantabrian area of Tudanca, very adapted to the mountain area, also extended to other places of Castilla León. The Vallisoletan and almost Tudanque José María de Cossío, expert and bullfighting writer, friend of many poets of the 27th, describes it as agile, strong, sober and resistant, very adapted to the middle of the European uro.

  

3 k

  34

Traditional German sexist rule that defined the social role of the woman who defended National Socialism and then much of the right: Kinder, Koche, Kirche, children, kitchen, church. Some added 2 more : Keller und Kleider, cellar and clothes. Our patriarchal tradition does not lag behind with the saying The married woman, at home and with a broken paw. The English version is : at home, barefoot and pregnant.

  

rollo macabeo

  46

Boring and tedious subject that tires by repetition or by long and farcical explanation such as reading the book of the Maccabees of the Old Testament, which like the others was written on papyrus rolls or scrolls.

  

almodrote

  37

From Latin moretum, mortar, which with the same and Arab influence remained at the almond tree. As the companions point out, besides mess or confusion of things is a very apparent Sephardic cuisine sauce for eggplant starters, made in mortar with oil, garlic and cheese and parsley, oregano, thyme, black pepper, tomato, egg. . . .

  

hyperión

  36

From the Greek hyper, over, above and ion, present participle of eimi, going : the one that goes above. Titan son of Uranus and Gea. Married to his sister Tea was the father of Helios, Selene and Eos. Botanists call hyperion the tallest tree on our planet that has just over 115 meters and about 600 years of life. It is known to be in Redwood Park in Northern California but not its exact location to protect it. It's a sequoia serpervirens.

  

novísimos

  69

Superlative plural again together with new. New, less cultured term, would point, according to some, in the opposite direction to old or widely used, while new to novel, original, innovative or renovated. The new medieval theology alluded to death and alleged later stages: judgment (balance of the archangel St. Michael), heaven or hell. After Nine New Spanish Poets of José María Castellet we also call the poets of the 68th generation and born after the civil war who generally reject social poetry tending to change reality, more concerned with formal aesthetics.

  

velintonia, la casa de la poesía

  41

Castellanization of Wellingtonia, scientific name of a redwood and the street of the poet Vicente Aleixandre in Madrid until 1978. Castellanization that the poet got from his armchair O of the RAE. In Velintonia 3, now Vicente Aleixandre 4, the poet lived until his death in '84 and was the meeting place of the literary creators of the 27th and later. Here you could see García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Alberti, Gerando Diego, Cernuda, Neruda. . . and then Gil de Biedma, Carlos Bousoño, José Hierro, Luis Antonio de Villena and so many others. Velintonia 3, Vicente Aleixandre 4, the house of poetry, is now abandoned at the end of Queen Victoria near the University City.

  

epéntico

  42

Some consider this adjective synonymous with epentetics, which is added by epentesis, although the Academy does not recognize it. According to our writer of the 68 Luis Antonio de Villena, who commented on it in the 70s with Vicente Aleixandre and then with Ian Gibson, García Lorca did use this term, with epentism and epentism, in the 1930s to refer to homosexuals and homosexuality. Villena mentions this dialogue between Vincent and Frederick in a meal : I heard that Cossío is a great scholar of epentism You knew? And Aleixandre answered: Yes, I knew. I know you've studied it a lot. It's a very remarkable epente.

  

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