Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

dormancia

  46

Also sleep. From Latin I sleep, sleep. A biology term that defines the inhibitory situation of some organs or seeds that do not develop their life cycle because of adverse environmental circumstances in terms of temperature, humidity, lighting or others. This situation of vegetative rest awaiting better circumstances occurs, for example, in the spores of fungi and ferns, in the winter lethargy of reptiles or in the hibernation of bears.

  

oregón

  57

One of 50 U.S. states located to the west on the Pacific line below Washintong and above that of California. The name would derive from our oregano, abundant plant in the south. The place name also exists in Spain in the region of Montiel. The Arroyo del Oregon is a tributary of the Jabalón and east of the Guadiana. Others would derive it from orejón, a place-name assigned perhaps by the conquerors. And even there are those who advocate the French ouragan, derived from our hurricane, a term that the Spaniards took from the taino, for the presence of hurricane winds in the Pacific area.

  

caragontía

  59

One of the many lamias of our mythology of Arab roots, woman-snake, Moracantana of Montánchez Castle, Extremaduran municipality of Cáceres, similar to the swallowing of Cazorla Castle in Jaén. While the castle was besieged by Christians a Moorish princess came out in the shape of a snake to comb in a fountain which allowed its conquest by the besiegers. The Moorish king punished her and threw her into a cistern. St. John's night regains its human form and sings : I am the feature / that I walk night and day / and the one who hears me sing / nearby has his agony.

  

abscopal

  30

From the Latin prefix ab , outside and scopus , white , target , target : which is outside the target . In medicine there is talk of abscopal effect, an expression coined by Robin Mole in 1953, to signal therapeutic effects outside the radiated area in cancer patients, such as shrinking or disappearing tumors when the immune system is effectively activated.

  

narciso el gladiador

  27

Trainer and companion of Emperor Comfy in the Roman Circus in the last decades of the second century. She participated in the last conspiracy against the emperor, encouraged by some senators and Marcia, concubine and counselor of the emperor himself to which he provided a poisoned drink. Narcissus walked him into the bathroom. According to others, in the bed after vomiting the drink. The protagonist of the film Gladiator is inspired by this character and the general of Marcus Aurelius Marco Nonio Macrino who in the film they call Maximo Tenth Meridio.

  

chumino

  62

English neologism in Andalusian version. It was actually the Andalusian phonetics of the Me Now Show that from the seventeenth century English sailors told the women of life when they did not lift their skirts upon arrival in port because it had been forbidden by the authorities. The Gaddites and Malagasy mostly interpreted the English as calling what the Pelanduscas of each port taught them. Thus the Show Me Now went on to mean the chumino, pussy or female sex organ in its external appearance.

  

numantóbriga

  36

Numantóbriga Route. 2-day walk with just over 50 kms that in mid-August convene some Sorian associations between Numancia, high of the tooth in Garray a few kms from Soria and Muro de Agreda (Roman city of Augustóbriga, ancient Celti population Arekorata's iberian) in order to know some of our history and the ancient XXVII road of Antonino's itinerary that united Astúrica Augusta ( Astorga ) with Caesar Augusta ( Zaragoza ) passing through Uxama Argaela ( Osma ).

  

hidráulico

  38

Of the many meanings of this water-related adjective, I will look at the etymological. It derives from the Greek hydatos man, water and aulos, cane, tube, flute. It is true that in ancient Rome they called hydraulus a musical instrument moved by water. The adjective refers to the energy generated by water or other liquid with many applications.

  

filomena

  34

Thus have the meteorologists named the drunk that plagues us these days and that has left in almost all of Spain snowscapes that we did not see years ago. It is actually a woman's name of Greek origin. It is taken from the passive present participle of the verb fileo, phyloumene filoumene filoumenon, which, the one, what is loved.

  

tésera de hospitalidad

  63

From Latin tessera -ae, tablet, dice, saint and sign. Small plates commonly metallic with different shapes and figures normally bronze that archaeologists are finding in the deposits of pre and Roman Hispania. His inscriptions committed the inhabitants of the various Hispanic cities to be hospitable to foreigners and involved granting local citizenship. The historian Diodorus Sículo said that the Celtiberians were cruel to their enemies, but with foreigners they behaved very sweetly and kindly.

  

garrotín

  70

Flamenco cante originated, according to some, in the asturleonese garrotiada of the straw mayate spread in transhumance, popularized by Catalan gypsies. Very popular dance in the early twentieth century to the beat of the flamenco stick : . . . . With the club, with the club! What do you want me to tell you, / what do you want me to tell you, / if that want yours and mine / is to be erased with death/ . The garrotín, the club, / of the verita vera goes.

  

freinetiano

  42

Concerning the pedagogical movement of frenchman Celestin Freinet who proposes, on a socialist basis, self-management, cooperation and solidarity among those involved in the educational process; a kind of education similar and contemporaneous to the last phase of our free educational institution that ended up as our unrecognized II Republic with the miserable dictatorship. Freinet pedagogy proposes a non-elitist school for the people with internal and participatory democracy, without capitalist authority or external demands.

  

caetra

  38

Small and round shield used by pre-Roman Hispanic warriors in guerrilla warfare and in horseback combat with some resemblance to the hoplon of the Greek hoplites. There are many archaeological testimonies in the northwestern peninsular between the Cantabrians, Galaicos and Lusitanian.

  

pírgano

  43

Canarism of Guanche origin. Palm leaf rachis that uses (ba) n Canary artisans as broomsticks and to make baskets or other useful or decorative objects. That's also what canaries call a tall, skinny person.

  

quera-

  46

Also the prefixes quer- , querat- , kerato- , cer- , wax- , cerat- , cerato- , zero- , the infijos -cera- , -cerat- , -querat- , and the suffixes -wax , -cerado , -ceras , -cerato , -zero , -ceronte , -zeros , -cerotasia . From Greek keras keratos, horn.

  

quera

  60

From Latin cavities, rot, carcoma. As one companion points out, they call in areas of Navarra and Aragon the insect of the carcoma and the serrín that generates when drilling the wood. To avoid this problem because of my stun land they say that the wood is to be cut into a waning moon and if possible in the waning of January. It is also said of the heavy and annoying person.

  

bolturino

  45

Aragoneseism. Butrino, vulture, fishing art with very traditional wicker in the Castilian and Aragonese villages, consisting of an elongated basket in whose wide mouth develops inward a cone with small mouth.

  

picual

  75

Beak-finished olive that produces a high quality oil. It is also said of the olive tree that gives this olive especially in the province of Jaén where more than 60 million plants also grow of other varieties besides picual such as cornicabra, hojiblanca or arbequina. In Spain there are more than 250 varieties.

  

kenningar

  78

Plural of kenning . Poetic constructions as metaphors typical of medieval Icelandic and Norwegian Viking literature. In the Viking sagas, in which José Luis Borges (History of Eternity) was very interested, it is called, for example, the tongue, sword of the mouth, to the sea, meadow of the gull, to the chest, seat of the laughter, to the teeth, the cliffs of words. . . In grettir's saga: The hero killed son Mak. There was a storm of swords and crow food.

  

gondomareño

  42

Gondomarense. Gentilicio de Gondomar, municipality of Pontevedrés of the Vigo area, founded by some Gothic nobleman named Gundemarus, Latin bajomedieval of the Germanic Gundemar. Here you will find numerous archaeological sites of various eras with dolmens, petroglyphs, necropolis, castros, hermitages, crossings, pazos. . . Also here was filmed the TVE series "Los pazos de Ulloa" by Emilia Pardo Bazán that we talk about so much about for the recovery of the Pazo de Meirás.

  

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