Spanish Open dictionary by Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Facebook

Felipe Lorenzo del Río
3889

Value Position Position 9 9 Accepted meanings 3889 9 Obtained votes 132 9 Votes by meaning 0.03 20 Inquiries 125292 8 Queries by meaning 32 20 Feed + Pdf

"Statistics updated on 7/3/2024 7:26:24 AM"

vagalume: Galician term : Lumbre, light that wanders, firefly, which in my land they also say gleaming coconut. This insect that entomologists call lampyris noctiluca receives an infinite number of names in popular terminology such as verme da noite, lucecú , lusicú , luceiro , luzbela , lucerna , avellina da cea , vella do caldo , coco relumbrón , bicho do lume , cociñeiro , corcoño . In our diverse Spains, more than a hundred different names have been counted, according to the areas: Lucerico , llanterneta , candil , candilico , candileja , alumbranoche , cuckoo de Dios , coco de luz , nochérniga . . .
amén de: Prepositional locution with the preferred meaning of in addition to , in addition to , also . It is in this sense that Cervantes uses it most of the time. But in some he gives it the meaning of except, with the exception of , outside of, as when the innkeeper says this to Don Quixote: "If your worship, sir knight, seeks an inn, as well as a bed, for there is none in this inn, everything else will be found in it in great abundance."
pan, que sobre: The whole popular saying goes: "Bread, which is left over; meat, let it suffice, and wine, let it be lacking", that is to say, and according to my interpretation of popular wisdom: bread in abundance, meat only enough and wine rather scarce. However, I have heard other versions of the same saying depending on the social contexts.
tiberio: Yes, it was a Roman emperor, who succeeded Augustus, thanks to the poisonings planned by his mother. It is also a mess, uproar, mess, disorder, tumult or shouting that is armed, messed or mounted when many camorristas and people of little order come together like those who accompanied the emperor in his revelries and at the end of his reign. But I also want to point out that it is a localism of Zamora, a tapa of mussels with somewhat spicy sauce that they serve in the area of Los Lobos. Of course, here they are not armed or bundled, they are taken and with pleasure.
gazatí: Demonym of Gaza, city and strip of Palestine, almost always punished by war.
achegadiña: Galician diminutive of achegada , adjective of achegar , to approach , to be close , to be relative . In Castilian it would be acercadiña, or better, that is or goes close, like the boat of A Virxe do Portovello de las Tanxugueiras and Rozalén: Polo mar abaixo vai o meu amor. Polo mar abaixo vai o meu ben . Polo mar abaixo vai una barquiña , moi achegadiña a vía do tren .
qui no té un all, té una ceba: The one who does not have a garlic, has an onion. Catalan saying: Everyone has problems of one kind or another. Everyone has an illness, a disease, a worry or another. No one enjoys perfect health. Some synonyms, words or similar expressions can be qui no té un nap , té una cabbage qui no té un bony , té una berruga
camacus: This is how they call the Barcelona Sundays their non-urban neighbors because of the expression that the first ones usually use when they visit them: cá macu , qué maco , qué majo .
dexiosis: Greek term, from dexios, right-handed, right-handed, right-handed. Handshake, representation of agreement, concord and peace, ritual of our usual greeting since classical Greece. By offering our hand to our fellow human beings, according to anthropologists, we are conveying this message: I come in peace, I do not want to attack you, I want an agreement.
carcamusas: Dish of the Toledo cuisine of lean meat with vegetables and potatoes or without, of the mid-twentieth century, with name of origin discussed in the Plaza de La Magdalena where a group of men came something carcamales and another of young ladies who considered their muses.
ononis spinosa: Already Pliny the Elder spoke of this plant in his Natural History. De onos in Greek, ass. I have found that it is one of the plants preferred by donkeys especially in spring when it is tender. Then it develops dangerous sharp thorns in which the girls of my land stuck the white marrow of the reeds coiled in a spiral. For my land they call it agatina, they also call it gatuna, gatuña, pimple and in other ways.
aptrónimo: Anglicism. Speaking name, which designates itself. It is said of the names of people that signify their profession or some characteristic that identifies them, such as being called Garden and being a gardener or Basil and being king.
círculos de hadas: Phenomenon typical of deserts although until recently it was thought that they only existed in Namibia and Australia. These circular formations, more visible from the air, are formed by creeping desert vegetation around an empty space. Its causes are being investigated and seem to be related to the better use of scarce moisture by desert vegetation. I do not know if they have any relation with the witches of our latitudes, a totally different phenomenon, which I will try to characterize separately.
corros de brujas: Characteristic phenomenon of some meadows, especially now with the autumn rains, caused by the mycelium developed of some fungi such as, for example, the senderuelas or senderillas that also call mushrooms of carrerilla (marasmius oreades). In the areas where these grouped paths appear, the grass acquires a darker greenish hue.
kevlar: Very resistant synthetic fiber used for protection such as, for example, bulletproof vest or butcher gloves or firefighter suits because it also withstands high temperatures and chemical abrasions. It was discovered by Polish chemist Stephanie Kwolek in 1965. I read a few days ago that Japanese scientists have managed to genetically modify silkworms to produce this very resistant fiber.
kiribatiano: Inhabitant of Kiribati, Republic of the Pacific, located northeast of Australia, with many islands and just over 100. 000 inhabitants, the first place on our planet where the sun rises every day.
quijlo: Quechua term with which the Incas named the tectonic faults or geological fractures of the Andes as those that converge in the area of Machu Picchu, investigated by geologist Rualdo Menegat.
flusflús: Colloquial onomatopoeic term widely used by people, (I hear it frequently in the central and northwestern area), with some phonetic variants such as flusflís, flisflús, flisflís, fusfús. . . Sprayer, atomizer, nebulizer, spray that vaporizes a liquid, water, cologne, oil or whatever, with pressurized air.
como tejolote en molcajete: Mexican expression with the verbs to be, to be or to walk equivalent to our peninsular to be ass of bad seat, to be a restless and inconstant person, not to have patience for anything and to walk constantly from the mint to the mecca to the end to not get anything. The tejolote of the Mexicans is the pylon, mallet, macilla, maneta or mortar hand, morteruelo or almirez that the Mexicans call with the beautiful Nahuatl term molcajete.
hikikomori: Japanese term designating the psychological and sociological phenomenon of acute social isolation or closed door syndrome. It also designates the person who suffers from this new disease either by social phobia, by excessive shyness or by some love or other failure. Current studies indicate that in this situation there could be more than half a million people in Japan.