Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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horologio: From Greek HOROLOGION, clock, solar quadrant, TIME, time period, duration, hour, day and LEGO, say, express . From this also derives our watch and Italian lobology. Sun clock in which the time is determined by the length of the shadow of the body itself located back to the sun, widely used in medieval monasteries. Such a clock can be inscribed in one of the ashlars of the Visigothic church of San Pedro de la Nave (seventh century) in Zamora, moved stone by stone, when the esla reservoir was built, in 1930 32.
transepto: Term of religious architecture that can be equivalent to cruise ship and that names the transverse nave that crosses perpendicular to the main one in the Christian churches both Romanesque and Gothic, of Latin or Greek cross. This space separated the area from the simple faithful from that of the ecclesiastics to which the etymology refers : trans-saeptum : beyond the fence .
ora maritima de avieno: The maritime coasts is a Latin text of descriptive geography of the European coasts from Britania to the PontEuxino and of course of pre-Roman Hispania, written in verse by the Etruscan poet Rufo Festo Avieno of the 4th century, based on earlier texts of up the 6th century to. C. He probably used texts by Herodotus, Hiscydides, Hecateus of Miletus, Eutemon of Athens, Escylax of Carianda, Auxymachuus of Samos and others.
la silla de felipe ii: Monument of granite toscamento carved with some platforms and steps that is located in the term of San Lorenzo del Escorial on the Madrid slope of the Sierra de Guadarrama. It is believed to have been an altar of the pre-Roman village of vetons similar to another in the Ulaca Castro in Villaviciosa in Avila. Here he enjoyed the landscape in the sixteenth century Philip II while building the Monastery of Escorial.
carpetanos: Pre-Roman village of Carpetania of Celtic origin, which archaeologists and historians place in the old Castilla la Nueva : Madrid , Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca and Guadalajara. Etymology is disputed. Professor Dionisio Urbina of the UCM the derivation of the Punic word Kartp present in escarpment, by the steep places next to streams of water where they used to place their populations as Titulcia, Toletum , Complutum , Egelesta ( Illescas ) and others, of which they speak Ptolomy and other ancient writers.
the mad piper: The mad piper, Bill Millin, Piper Bill, the Piper of Sword, codenamed a Normandy beach area on Landing Day. He was a Scottish soldier of the thousands who d-day whose only weapons were bagpipes, a Scottish skirt and a dagger in the sock. As his companions disembarked he walked well along the beach. playing bagpipes: Highland Laddie, Road to the Isles. . The Germans didn't shoot him because they thought he'd gone crazy.
día d: In military jargon is the day a combat operation is started or started. But D-Day by antonomasia was the day when the early morning landing of Normandy in World War II began, on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the day that the French call Jour J or le Choc. The agreed day had been 5, but bad weather and sea conditions in the English Channel advised to do so the next day. It began with the Overlord operation followed by the Neptune operation.
visvaporú: Popular name of an unctuous and whitish ointment with essences of timol, menthol, alcanphment and eucalyptus with cedar oil and petroleum inse, which is usually applied to the chest to relieve cough and nasal congestion of colds or seasonal flu that usually attacks these d You'd be cold in the winter. It can also be diluted in hot water to inhale vapours.
meconio: From Greek mekonion, diminutive of mekon, poppy ( papaver somniferum). It is the juice obtained from the ancient heads of the poppy with anesthetizing alcaloids and sedatives. In this sense he uses the term the peripathic master. In Biology and Medicine is also the saving, first blackish, mucilaginous and inodorous stools of the newborn. With this second sense it is also used by Hippocrates in the 4th century BC. C. , perhaps because of the similarity in the color and appearance of these faeces with the opium or latex obtained from the poppy.
estado canalla: A term sometimes used by the U.S. Department of State to characterize states whose interstate actions do not respect the basic principles of international law. Noam Chomsky in a recent interview for Truthout agrees and draws his inevitable conclusions by going so far as to say that Soleimani's murder is not an act of war but a terrorist act.
el túnel de la risa: The Madridians call the three railway tunnels between the stations of Atocha and Chamartín with south-north direction through which more than 450 trains run daily with about 200. 000 travelers. The original was designed by Indalecio Prieto, Minister of Public Works of the Second Republic, in 1933. The right-wing press ridiculed the project he called the laughing tube when compared to a fair ground attraction at the time. Currently another works in its west wing that passes by Sol. The east wing is for the AVE (high speed) and is under construction.
catarsis: From Greek katharsos, purification, purging, soul liberation. Aristotle in his Poetics defines her as psychosomatic emotional purification in the experience of compassion and fear. This is how he masterfully describes the Stench, the experiences of Athenoid expectants of tragedies such as Oedipus or his daughter Antigone in the face of the adverse and cruel fate.
durandal: Also Durandarte or Durenda. Thus they called the sword of Count Roldán, nephew of Charlemagne, killed in the battle of Roncesvalles against the Basques. A legend of the Bierzo places this sword at the bottom of Lake Carucedo next to the mines of the Médulas. Perhaps it was taken there by the Leonese knight Bernardo de Carpio who participated in a second battle of Roncesvalles a few years after the first. There are also other versions.
marzuelo: Also marzuela, marcera, March mushroom, squirrel mushroom, snow mushroom, roe deer mushroom, marot in Catalan, martxoko ezko in Basque, is the hygrophorus marzuolus, the earliest mushroom of spring, which prefers acidic soils and pine forests.
teoría de las signaturas: Also called theory of the sign of ancient and popular medicine, it expresses (ba) the conviction that everything (minerals, plants or animals) carries on itself the signs of its virtues. Even medieval Christian theology defended that the creator has placed in every being the keys to his usefulness to man. In the botanical pharmacopoeia of the renaissance many healing plants are mentioned based on this theory, such as hepatic, hepatica nobilis, for liver disease because of its trilobed leaves.
ego vobis, vos mihi: I for you, you for me, the motto of the Camaldulense monks or of the Order of the Cameldula, a reformed branch of the Order of St Benedict in Tuscany in eleventh century Tuscany, who, like their Benedictine brothers, are engaged in contemplation and manual work following the máxima ora et labora .
l'estro armonico: Harmonic inspiration. Collection of twelve violin concertos by Vivaldi, transcribed a few later by Johann Sebastian Bach.
turmogos: Pre-Roman village of Celtic origin to which archaeologists place in the province of Burgos since the Iron Age, bordering to the north with the Cantabrians, to the east with the autrigones, to the west with the vacceos and to the south with the vacceos and arévacos. Its capital was surely Segisamo in the present-day village of Samson in the Odra-Pisuerga region.
carta a garcía: A message to García was a text by the American journalist and philosopher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth helbert Hubbard, in which he narrated the delivery of a message from the American president to the insurrectionist general Calixto García in the Cuban War. This text has passed into popular culture as an ideal of work well done with commitment and unwavering will. Attitude of blind obedience very typical of soldiers without questioning authorities or legitimacies.
arts and crafts: Arts and crafts was a British artistic movement of the second half of the nineteenth century contrary to the Victorian style, which attempted to recover medieval arts and crafts by abusing mass production. In the arts and crafts they propose to do useful things, do them well and make them beautiful. They excelled in architecture and decorative arts. One of his main drivers was the architect Willian Morris advocate of traditional textile work in front of chain production.