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Felipe Lorenzo del Río
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tiquisque
  51

It is toquisque or toquisqui, simplification of all kiosk or all quisqui, macarronic evolution of quisque, in Latin, each, each. Every child of neighbor, everyone, (tolabasca , thoraparquia , tolapanda ), each and every one.

  
ubi aquae ibi salus
  64

It's M's doctoral thesis. Elena Sánchez Moral held a few years ago at UNED, directed by María Jesús Pérex Agorreta and Carme Miró, on the mineral-medicinal and thermal waters in 152 different places of our geography. The Latin sentence of the title, where waters, alli health, alludes to the quasi-thermalization of water, thermal or not, but above all thermal in our complex history.

  
vivos voco, mortuos plango, fúlgura frango
  72

I summon to council, weep the dead and destroy the rays. Latin inscription that frequently appears in the bells of our peoples. The bells of my childhood were doing and still do these three tasks perfectly. Differences ( ba ) touch mode . I will remember the mortuary plango : touch of the major ( tonnn . . . ) , three seconds, touch the minor (tannn . . . ) , three seconds, touch both at once ( tloannnn . . . ) . Repeated at least three times.

  
vía de la plata
  32

Roman calzada of the western peninsular that linked the city of Augusta ( Astorga ) with Emérita Augusta (Merida). The Arabs called this road al-balat, cobbled, which led to silver, by transforming into deaf the sound "b" of balat, the opposite of what has happened in the normal evolution of our language. Antonio de Nebrija in the early sixteenth century he already called it : Argentea dicitur vulgo . Over time the silver road became a tourist and cultural route also used by pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago.

  
vacuna
  40

Immunizing substance against disease. The term derives from the Latin vacca, cow. Louis Pasteur proposed in the late 19th century for all immune inoculations in honor of the English physician Edward Jenner, "who has saved more lives than any other man", who in the late 18th century investigated the bovine smallpox (variolae vaccinae) that were contracted by milkers, which immunized them against human smallpox. With the pus of the blisters of the hand of a cow milker infected an 8-year-old boy and many other people. Everyone was vaccinated against smallpox that was once raving.

  
síndrome de amapola alta
  46

Also high exposure. The English say tall poppy syndrome. Feeling of rejection and hatred that stands out in some area perhaps to inconsciently justify one's mediocrity. This expression derives from an account by Herodotus that Aristotle also quotes in book V of Politics and also in the book I of Ab urbe condite of Titus Livio: Tarquinus the proud, last king of Rome, cut the highest poppies in his garden when his son Sixth Tarquinius asked him for advice on what to do in the city of Gabios , once conquered.

  
hipoxemia
  20

In medicine, low concentration of oxygen in the blood. From Greek hypo, bass, under and oksys, sharp, penetrating. Oxygen inhaled in breathing binds in the lungs to the iron atoms of hemoglobin and is distributed to all cells and organs in the body. Hypoxia or oxygen loss in the latter is a consequence of hypoxemia.

  
concilio cadavérico
  71

Also Synodus Horrenda , Cadaveric Synod, Terror Trial, Corpse Trial. Macabre Council of the Catholic Church, convened in January 897 in the Basilica of St. John Lateran by Stephen VI v Formoso I, who died poisoned nine months earlier and accused of perjury and of illegitimately assuming the office. The putrid corpse was exhumed, placed before everyone in papal attire and condemned ( damnatio memoriae). After cutting off his thumb, forefinger and heart of his right hand he was thrown into the Tiber. Stephen VI was strangled a few months later.

  
fasces
  24

Plural of fascis, in Latin, bundle, beam, wad. The Romans took this symbol from the Etruscans. It was a set of elm or birch rods tied with straps to the handle of an axe that sticked out. It symbolized the power and authority of the magistrates and also the strength of the union. They were carried on the shoulder by the lictors in front of the different magistrates. It was the symbol of musolini's National Fascist Party in the 1920s and 1930s and has subsequently been and is a symbol of many shields, flags and institutions.

  
redneck
  31

Red collar in English. This is what rural workers in the south and inland of the country call the U.S. derogatory in the U.S. for their exposure to the sun, low-income and conservative tendencies. He has also appointed racist and under-cultivated Southerners.

  
turris burris
  52

Galdosian expression, derived perhaps from the Latin drunken turris of the litany of the rosary of our childhood. After praying the rosary, crushing litanies were recited to dogmatize minds : Mater amábilis , -ora pro nobis; mater admirábilis , -ora pro nobis; . . . virgo fidelis, -ora pro nobis; . . eburgy turris, -ora pro nobis. . . In Galdós means confusion, chaotic and messy situation, mixing of heterogeneous things.

  
sursum corda
  11

Latinism taken from the preface of the Mass, used by the officiant since the 3rd century, when Christians were still persecuted, meaning "up hearts". The faithful answered: Habemus ad dominum, we have them raised to the Lord. The expression eventually became the noun sursuncorda, stereotypical character of great power for better or worse.

  
cancionero de palacio
  10

Also known as Songmaker of Barbieri, musicologist who discovered and published it in 1890. Manuscript of polyphonic music of the Renaissance of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. It includes 469 pieces of music, some anonymous, in Spanish, Latin, French, Portuguese, Basque and Aragonese, collected in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.

  
con dios, hermano
  22

Simplification of the somewhat old-fashioned farewell of "Stay with God, brother" or "Go with God, brother", farewell very typical of other times when religiosity permeated everything. By my land alistana asturleonesa you still hear some (rare) times. I have always been struck by these forms of the imperative used by the enlisters: I met God! -Go with him! ( Stay with God -Go with him).

  
ya lo creo
  53

Assertive and corroborating expression of the truth enunciated by our interlocutor considering it a no-brainer. Sometimes it can also make ironic sense to indicate otherwise.

  
por supuestísimo
  37

Affirmative adverbial statement accentuated with superlative. The Academy admits it although it is not the normal way to superlatifize an adverb. There are some other examples of this type, as very dear, very at ease.

  
jasidismo
  41

Also hasidism. Orthodox movement of Judaism, founded in the eighteenth century in Poland by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, which promotes strict observing of the law with a mystical and cabalistic interpretation of the Torah. Currently there are very traditional and closed Jasidic communities in eastern Europe and North America. They are spoken of by the newly released Unorthodox series, based on The Memoirs of Devora Feldman.

  
qumrán
  29

Desert valley on the western shores of the Dead Sea in the West Bank (State of Palestine) where there were Essenian settlements from the 2nd century bc. D. C. , in whose caves numerous scroll manuscripts of that time were found in 1947, known as the Qumran Rolls or Dead Sea Manuscripts.

  
ubiquista
  38

Ubiquista : Geobiologists' term . Also ubiquitous, ubiquitaary or heterocoric. It is said of the plant or animal that adapts to different environments. It was also said of the Lutherans who defended, not to accept the doctrine of transubstantiation, that the body of Christ was in the Eucharist, but because, like God, it is everywhere (located in Latin).

  
sociópata
  68

Etymological hybrid of Latin socius, partner, companion and Greek pathos patheos, agitated state of soul, suffering, pleasure, passion. A person without social empathy who cares about a damn the good of the other, which he hides with seemingly intelligent manipulation with post-truths or fake news that often from power deceive the poorest and most disadvantaged, which unfortunately are the most. Examples of these people are those who do not allow anti-coronavirus drugs to arrive in Cuba or withdraw financial contributions to WHO. This is what Master Noam Chomsky puts us in his last interview on April 8 to The Context Magazine ( ctxt).

  




       


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