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cancerofobia
  10

It's another way of calling carcinophobia ("fear of cancer").

  
cainotofobia
  12

It's another version of cainophobia ("fear of surprises").

  
caliguinefobia
  13

Lesser-used variant of caliginephobia ("fear of beautiful women").

  
esteatófago
  11

It feeds on animal fat. The origin is in the Greek words 963; 964; 949; 945; 961; , 963; 964; 949; 945; 964; 959; 962; (stear, steatos "tallow, fat, bacon") and 966; 945; 947; 949; 953; 957; ( fagein "to eat" ) .

  
teseracto
  9

It is a regular geometric body of 4 dimensions, formed by 8 three-dimensional cubes, with the same criterion by which a cube is composed of 6 two-dimensional squares and a square with 4 one-dimensional lines. As our perception is three-dimensional and Euclidean we find it impossible to make a real representation, but we can suppose and name it using the Greek voices 964; 949; 963; 963; 945; 961; 949; 962; ( tessars "four" ) 945; 954; 964; 953; 957; 959; 962; ( actinus "ray, edge" ) . It was named after science fiction writer and mathematician Charles Howard Hinton who used that name in his book A New Age of Thought (1888) inspired by the idea that, in a square, from each vertex 2 edges come out towards the dimensions height and width, in a cube a vertex is added for the dimension of depth and in a tesseract the fourth edge that would allow to move between the inside and the outside, which Hinton with Hellenistic spirit called kata and anne, for their concepts of "downward" and "upward" respectively. See four-dimensional, hypercube.

  
asepsia
  9

Absence of infectious pathogens, also the procedure for eliminating them. From Greek 945;- (a- , "without" ) 963; 951; 960; 949; 953; 957; ( sepein "rot, gangrene" ) . See antiseptic, medical/asepsis.

  
tetradimensional
  9

It has four spatial dimensions. From Greek 964; 949; 964; 961; 945; 962; ( tetras ) , derived from 964; 949; 963; 963; 945; 961; 949; 962; ( tessars "four") , the Latin dimensio , onis ("measurement in a space") and the suffix -al . See tesseract, hypercube.

  
alhóndiga
  8

Place in the villages where wheat grains and other cereals were traded; also the barns where they were stored for sale. Although at first they were hostels for traveling merchants, and their name comes precisely from the Greek 960; 945; 957; 948; 959; 967; 949; 953; 959; 957; ( pandokheion "that receives all, lodging") , which was taken by Hispanic Arabic as alfundaq before moving into Spanish. For some mistake see meatball.

  
dendrograma
  8

It is a type of flowchart with a trunk line that is divided and subdivided into its branches until it reaches levels with more detail and precision. Precisely its name is an association with the shape of the tree and its branches; from Greek 948; 949; 957; 948; 961; 959; 957; ( dendron "tree" ) 947; 961; 945; 956; 956; 945; ( gramma "letter, written" ) . See also dendrography, dendrograph .

  
medianoche
  10

1º_ Moment in which the sun is in the meridian opposite to the noon, or also when it is 12 to . m . (in 12-hour format) or 00:00 (in 24-hour format), which do not necessarily coincide in time. 2º_ Bun , masita , invoice .

  
mediodía
  9

1º_ Time of the "middle of the day", which can be when the sun is at the highest point or also when it is 12 82'' m (in 12-hour format) or 12: 00 (in 24-hour format), which do not necessarily coincide in time. 2º_ For the previous one, "lunch" ("lunch between morning and afternoon"). 3rd_ Southern region in a country. This comes from a French custom of calling their region of Occitania and whatever lies south of the 45th parallel Midi ("noon"). Italians also call the southern part of their country Mezzogiorno ("noon").

  
singulare tantum
  8

It is a Latin expression for the inherent singular, the case of nouns that only (or in most cases) have a singular number. Singulare tantum translates to "singular only", and singularia tantum as "singular only".

  
plurale tantum
  10

It is a Latin expression to name the inherent plural, the case of nouns that are always (or almost always) used in the plural, even if they refer to a single object. Plurale tantum translates as "only plural", and pluralia tantum as "only plurals".

  
hiperestésico
  11

It is another way of saying "hypersensitive", with all its Greek components, by hyper- ("high, elevated, superior") 945; 953; 963; 952; 945; 957; 959; 956; 945; 953; ( aisthanomai "to feel" ) 953; 954; 959; 962; ( -ikos "relative to" ) .

  
hipostésico
  8

1º_ It is another way of saying "hyposensitive", with all its Greek components, by hypo- ("low, inferior") 945; 953; 963; 952; 945; 957; 959; 956; 945; 953; ( aisthanomai "to feel" ) 953; 954; 959; 962; ( -ikos "relative to" ) . 2º_ In physics and chemistry it is said of the sediment that remains at the bottom of a container with liquid. From the Greek hypo- ("below") 963; 964; 945; 964; 953; 954; 959; 962; ( statikós "stationary, balanced, stable" ) . 3º_ In religion and philosophy, it is related to hypostasis (which can be interpreted as "foundation") by the divine and human conjunction in a person. 4º_ What takes an abstract concept as if it were real. It appears as a literary device.

  
zapar
  14

1º_ Dig with the shoe ("tool like a big shovel"). 2º_ Zapar is the name of a ravine in Antofagasta (Chile).

  
galen
  10

1º_ Galen is the name of a locality in the city of Nashville ( State of Tennessee, USA). 2º_ Community in Deer Lodge County ( state of Montana, USA ) . 3º_ Town in Wayne County, New York, USA. 4º_ Galen is also a name in English (which in Spanish is Galen) and is found in several fictional characters, such as one of the villains of the film 'Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea', the technowizard of Babylon 5 or Galen Marek and Galen Erso of Star Wars.

  
bárbula
  14

1º_ Each filament or chin that forms the vexyls or banners of the feathers. It is most commonly used in the plural. 2º_ Bárbula is a town in the municipality of Naguanagua ( Carabobo State, Venezuela ) .

  
cateme
  16

1º_ It is an almost unusual reflexive pronominal form for the inflection of the verb to taste "verbs/caté" with the pronoun "me". It is almost preferable to think that it is a mistake by "cate me". 2º_ It may be another version of Spanglish (or something like that) "kateme", which would be the poorly heard transliteration of "God damn it", an imprecation widely used in English. 3º_ Cateme is the name of a neighborhood or village in the province of Tete (Mozambique).

  
selah
  15

1º_ Selah is a city in Yakima County, Washington, USA. 2º_ It is a spelling little used in Spanish for sela (Hebrew liturgical voice).

  






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