Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

-ostomía

  60

Also -ottomany . Greek suffixes derived from stoma stamatos, mouth, created in medicine to mean surgical stomata in different organs such as colostomy, tracheostomy or cystostomy.

  

shenandoah

  30

Word originating from the American Indians Algonquinos of varied semantics : ( "daughter of the stars", "river between mountains", "forest deer"), then converted into beautiful song. It now designates many American places and towns, a nature park and a northern Virginia river that flows into the Potomac, the Washington DC River.

  

hermannsdenkmal

  36

Monument to Arminius, the Querusque warrior who united the German tribes to defeat the Romans at the Battle of Teutoburg in the early 1st century. Only the statue is more than 24 meters long and is located facing west with the sword aloft in the Teutoburg forest near Detmol in North Rhine-Westphalia in northern Germany. The monument, symbol of German unity since the nineteenth century attracts many visitors.

  

icetiana

  38

Women's Icetian, referring to Iceta, current first secretary of the PSC. The term as said and translated by his colleague John is the indecent and false version of far-right journalists who identify socialism and especially if it comes from Catalonia with evil itself. The socialism of Iceta and anyone else is nothing more than the struggle to achieve a more just and equal society in the face of the privileges, selfishness and insolidarity of the defenders of capitalism and above all the neoliberal.

  

paradoja de monty hall

  45

Mathematical problem of probability based on a usable television contest of the 70s and 80s led by a certain Monty Hall : A contestant must choose to open a door between three to appropriate what is inside. Behind one is a car. Behind the other two a goat. Once the contestant has chosen one, the presenter opens another by appearing a goat. Should the contestant change his choice to have more evidence of getting the car right? . I don't think I'm a mathematician. But mathematicians say yes.

  

agámico

  29

Greek prefix a- , without and deer, marriage, sexual union, by couples. It is said above all of the asexual reproduction of plants, for example, that is done by roots or cuttings.

  

insulino-resistente

  45

It has insulin resistance. Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas whose single presence normally opens the door of cells to blood glucose. But sometimes it doesn't happen even if insulin is present. Circumstantial causes can be multiple, age, overweight, genetics, poor physical activity, belonging to certain ethnic groups. If you are resistant to insulin the best thing you can do is physically exercise in a regular way and eat in moderation.

  

sistema ticónico

  61

Also tychonic. It was the system defended in the sixteenth century by the Danish astronomer Ticho Brahe, that of the silver nose, which united Copernicus' heliocentrism with the geocentrism of Ptolemy : The earth in the center. Around it the fixed stars, the moon and the sun and around the sun the other planets. In this way it was intended to explain the annual paralage of fixed stars, that is, that we do not appreciate difference in luminosity in the stars because the motionless earth would be in the center.

  

pimpinela menor

  31

Also called algafita, ge grass, gitanilla, cucillo grass, throat, kidney, porrazos, ladder, stonebreaker, bloodthirsty, minor leguisorba of the rosacea family. Traditionally used as a medicinal plant and for salads and dressings it was the preferred plant of Francis Bacon, the father of English empiricism. It is one of the ingredients of Frankfurt green sauce (grie soss) with chives, eraser, perifollo, sorrel, calf and parsley.

  

umlaut

  42

German term introduced by Jacob, one of the Brothers Grimm, which we could translate by altering the sound it generates in the vowels to, or, or the presence of the umlaut. In our language the umlaut is applied only in the u to indicate that it is pronounced when it is preded by a soft g and followed by an i or an e . The a , o , u umlaut ( s , s , ) are pronounced as the diptongo ae of Latin, French oe and French respectively.

  

peberholm

  26

Pepper islet in Danish. Artificial island created in the Strait of Ersund between Copenhage and Malmo to build a tunnel bridge between the two cities, inaugurated in 2000. On this island ends the bridge started in Sweden and begins the tunnel under the sea that ends in Copenhage.

  

selandia

  28

Greater island of Denmark on which Copenhage is located separated from Sweden by the Strait of Ersund. It is located in eastern Denmark between the Categat Strait to the north and the Baltic Sea to the south.

  

miera

  71

Bitter and thick oil almost like fish, obtained from the distillation of wood and red juniper berries, juniperus oxycedrus that also call each, cedar from Spain, juniper of the miera, jinebro, jimbro, oxyicedro and many other ways. It was used by shepherds to cure the roña. The name derives from the Latin adjective merus -a -um associated with the noun pix . Pix mere, pure fish.

  

villaralbino

  29

Gentilicio de Villaralbo, municipality of Zamora one kilometer from the Douro, almost 2 . 000 inhabitants. In the Middle Ages villare albus, farm then converted into a realengo villa.

  

de vez en cuando

  36

Very nice temporary adverbial expression that we use to point out that something happens or is done at irregular and relatively long intervals of time, not very often but also from Easter to bouquets or figs to brevas, from time to time, from time to time, from time to time, on certain occasions.

  

ascidia

  38

Sea potato. Small invertebrate hermaphrodite with a sack shape of a few centimeters, fixed to the bottom, which feeds by filtering the sea water. Scientists extract plitidepsin from it, an anticancer compound that in Spain is also beginning to be used against coronavirus. CSIC researcher Luis Enjuanes works on this and the vaccine

  

xantopsia

  57

One of several types of chromamatopsy or vision disturbance with some non-existent coloration, caused by problems in the retina or optic nerve. The xantopsia, from the Greek xanthos, yellow color and opsis opseos, vision. This yellowish vision that van Gogh appears to have suffered can be caused by consumption of the digitalis purplish, prescribed by his doctor, Dr. Gachet, in whose portrait appears the yellow tones and a thimder.

  

misofonía

  61

From Greek misos -eos, hate, aversion and fonos, sound. Extreme sensitivity to certain sounds that are unpleasant and unbearable for some people, such as when scratching the fork on a plate or scratching a surface with their nails.

  

gonocórico

  34

Term of biology derived from Greek, gonos, origin, procreation, seed, sex and choré, space, region, separation. Unisexual. It is said of living beings who have separate sexes, in different individuals, what is common in animals and not so much in plants, in which case they are called dioetics, in Greek, who have two houses, that is, they have male and female flowers in different individuals. The adjective was coined by German naturalist Ernst Haeckel in the mid-19th century

  

cristianía

  39

This was called the city of Oslo, capital of Norway, from 1624 to 1925. The name was granted to him by King Cristian IV after a horrific fire in 1624. Currently Christianity is a special neighborhood of Copenhage, self-proclaimed independent of Denmark in the 70s based anarchist in the provo movement, neighborhood in which all homes are community owned, in which soft drugs are legal and do not pay taxes to the central state.

  

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