Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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raíz del traidor: Devil's root, dye pigeon, alkanna tinctoria, boraginácea plant with dye and healing properties already used by druids. Greek and Roman women also knew her. We have already defined it in the Dictionary with the term onoquiles . The Inquisition forbade it as a witch weed because it turned water into blood. It is now used in cosmetics for blushes or lipstick and in ointments and ointments for the skin.
proms: Also known as BBC Proms, British broadcasting corporation. Proms is a syncopation of Promenade Concerts, musical walks. It is a festival of classical music concerts in which some spectators could walk in some areas of the auditorium. It is held in London every summer since the 19th century. The last concert of the festival, the Last Night, usually has a fixed repertoire.
ómica: German neological suffix typical of different disciplines of medical sciences and molecular biology such as Genomics or genome study, proteomics or study of proteome or Interactomics, study of the relationships between proteins and other molecules of the proteins Cells. The term genome was coined by the German botanist Hans Winkler to define the set of genes in each cell. Logically the word comes from the Greek genoses, origin, offspring, birth, gender and ultimately from gignomai, born, become more the suffix -oma that gives idea of set or grouping.
tormenta de citocinas: Exaggerated immune reaction to an infection with symptoms of fever, swelling, extreme fatigue, redness, nausea. . , caused by the interaction of immune system cells that excessively increases cytokines and macrophages in some organs such as dangerously inflamed lungs. This is what seems to have happened in the so-called Spanish flu of 1918, in the 2003 SARS epidemic, H5N1 bird flu and it seems that is what is happening now with the coronavirus.
citocina: Also cytokine. From Greek kytos, cell and Latin suffix -ina that can denote matter, substance, belonging or relationship. It is a fundamental protein in the communication between the cells of our organisms and also and especially among those of the immune system. It is as important as hormones or neurotrasmisors. In addition to the immune system cytokines are involved in many other biological functions such as the birth, growth and death of other cells.
itia: -Itia is a Latin prefix that indicates quality of, as in iustitia , quality of the just, justice, which, as is evident, evolved in Spanish to -icia and in other cases the group ti followed by vocally patrimonially gave z and turned out finally -eza , as in pigritia , laziness .
saltatumbas: This term already has our Dictionary : clergyman who lives almost exclusively from burials. I just want to provide the example of the priest Merino, not the guerrilla of the war of independence, but the Arnedano Martín Merino Gómez, who attacked Isabel II with a stylus on February 2, 1852 inside the royal palace. He got caught five days later.
linfopenia: Also lymphocytopenia. From Greek penia, poverty and nympha, goddess of sources, young woman, fiancée, who evolved in Latin to lympha, clear water : poverty of water cells in the blood, i.e. B and T lymphocytes, types of leukocytes that fight in our organisms against the Infections. Some Spanish researchers from the Biosepsis Group already announced two years ago that lymphopenic pneumonia should be monitored especially.
kenopsia: From Greek kenos, empty and opsis opseos, vision, look, appearance. Feeling of emptiness, like the one we experienced these days of national quarantine when observing the squares and streets of our neighborhoods, usually full of people and children. Looking from the terrace of my computer I have that sad and unsettling feeling.
uclessiana: Document accrediting having made the way of Uclés, one of the many historical paths of our geography, from the city of Madrid to the castle-monastery of Uclés in the province of Cuenca, mother house of the order of Santiago since the XII century, which Previously it had been Muslim fortress and Celtiberian castro. Our dictatorship used it as a prison camp and then as a seminary. Today it is a Property of Cultural Interest and is part of our Historical Heritage.
escuela de vallecas: Group of artists and writers of the late twenties grouped around the painter Benjamín Palencia and the sculptor Alberto Sánchez "the socialist", who sought the regeneration of Hispanic art. Its meeting center was the geodesic point of Cerro de Almodóvar which they called the witness hill, at the height of Km 9 of the Valencia road, next to the current neighborhood of Santa Eugenia. In this avant-garde initiative of surrealist and cubist tints, soon truncated with the war, participated Maruja Mallo , Moreno Villa , Nicolás de Lekuoma , Miguel Hernández , Lorca, Alberti and so many others.
bletisama: The trowel on a high. Castro veton from the 7th century to . D. C. by the Tormes River. Then Roman city of lusitania. Its name evolved to Bletisma, Letisma, Letesma prara ending in present-day Ledesma, a beautiful Salmantine city.
estadal: Ancient Castilian measure of length and surface that was also used in other parts of Spain with small variations. As a measure of length it had 4 rods (just over 3 meters). The rod of Burgos was worth 0 , 835905 meters . As an area measurement was worth 16 square rods (just over 11 square meters)
colgar la sotana: Abandon ecclesiastical studies or the priesthood. In Spain the church is becoming increasingly unpopular. The priesthood is not as exciting as it was in other times; however the church still erre that errs without allowing the optional celibacy. Wouldn't it be a solution to the pederastia of the priests who have done so much harm to people? We are a long way from the theology of liberation.
ahorcar los libros: Abandon studies especially ecclesiastics. This fixed expression was very common in rural Spain in the post-war era when someone left the seminary.
llauro: Llaurador , labrador , farmer in the popular Valencian; also rustic person, of little refinement. From Latin laborare who gave llaurar, plough, sail the earth with plowing.
apireno: From Greek a- , proprietary prefix and pyrén pyrén piranos, nugget, seed, bone. Old-fashioned term of botany. It is said of the fruit that has no seed.
gúgol: In Googol English. We usually say guguel. In math it is a hugely large number, named after a nine-year-old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner in 1938. Initially he applied it to 1 followed by as many zeros as you want until you got tired, but finally it materialized in a 1 followed by a hundred zeros, that is, ten to one hundred, more or less factorial of 70 ( 70!) . The mathematician wanted to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity. It is said that the founders of Google made a typo when writing the name of their search engine and there we are.
fuerza de coriolis: Additional movement of objects on the surface of the earth when rotating the earth in space; objects are diverted to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. We can observe this by sneaking the water down the sink or sink drain. In Spain the turn of water is like that of the clock hands. In Argentina it must be the other way around. This effect of rotation was described in 1836 by the French scientist Gaspard Gustave Coriolis.
pastela sefardí: Sephardic people called it pill, bastille, bastila or suffice. It is a Moorish dish of Al-Andalus that also incorporated the Jews, better than our empanada, made with pasta, chicken or poultry meat, nuts and many spices, with savory and sweet flavors. In the Jewish quarter of Segovia near the cathedral they make some delicious cake tapas.