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'Spica' is an old brand (which still exists) for portable radios. It was the first to use transistors and AA batteries, which gave it a practical size to carry everywhere. It was manufactured by Sanritsu Electric Co. Ltd. from Japan from 1955, and was exported to a large number of countries, which gave it its international fame. However, its main buyer was the USA, which influenced the origin of the brand as it resembles the English speaker (spica "speaker, speaking, speaker"), which also has its Latin etymology in spicare ("vocear, highlight to the ear" ), by spica, ae ( "spike, peak, which protrudes") .
Although 'Cuatro Latas' is not an official brand, it is one of the names that the Renault 4L car received in Spain. The R4 (the number was for its 4 cylinders) had many versions during the 1960s; 1970 and 1980s when it was manufactured in European, African and South American plants, and while all were inexpensive, the 'L' model was the "luxury" version 128527; . The Hispanic nickname is an irony about this 'L', although a little unfair since despite its flimsy appearance it was a very robust and versatile vehicle that came to compete in raid or rally type races. But it wasn't the only case; among the many popular (and advertising) names he received, in Argentina there was also that of "Renolata" (a humorous dissimilation of "Renoleta").
It is a brand of oat-based foods produced by the American company Quaker Oats Company. Although today it is merged and diversified into other products, the name is still associated already with a generic value with the "oatmeal soup". The English word quaker (quaker "Quaker") was initially chosen as a sign of honesty of the product, since the followers of that religion could not lie.
'Yahoo! Inc. ' is the name of an American media and web technology company founded in 1995 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. At first it was a kind of 'Bookmark' or 'Favorites' published on the Internet with sites organized by categories, to then offer a search engine and other services such as news, mail, instant messaging, . . . The portal with several of those services still exists, though the company was bought by Verizone in 2016. There is more than one version about the origin of the name; one says it's an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Organized Oracle! ( "Another oracle more organized by hierarchies!" ) ironically describing its first online version, there is also a legend about David Filo's father calling his son and friend "pair of yahoos!" ( "pair of savages!" ) for their antics as children, but according to their creators it is because of the derogatory way they used at Stanford University -where they studied- to qualify southern students, simple and unsophisticated, which they found sympathetic. In the latter two cases, the term is taken from the novel Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726), where a yahoo is a human-like being, but crude, wild and uncultured. Although for unbelievable origins, I prefer the one found by the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco from the Borgean tale The Brodie Report, where the yahoos were also rustic but able to understand a phrase with their simple monosyllabic language. . . but also to be confused.
It is not a word that is used in Spanish, but we know it by its literary origin, since it is the name of a race of human-looking beings, uncivilized and considered only as cattle by another called houyhnhnm, made up of horses capable of speaking that live in an idyllic society, found by the traveler Lemuel Gulliver in the novel Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726. Since then the English call yahoos to the rustic and uneducated subjects. In 1970 Jorge Luis Borges published his short story The Brodie Report, which is inspired by the work of Swift, where a Scottish missionary finds a wild tribe from Brazil called Mlch, and which he names 'yahoo' according to its English meaning. Both accounts depict these peoples as a cultural and social involution of another that was more advanced and degenerated. View english/yahoo , Yahoo! ( "web services company" ) .
In the novel Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726) it is the name of creatures with the appearance of horses, but endowed with reason and without any vice. This contrasts with other characters who inhabit the same island, the yahoos, human-looking but wild-behaving, selfish, envious and aggressive, whom the Houyhnhnm treat like cattle. During his time in this society, Lemuel Gulliver ended up admiring the wisdom and nature of horses, and despising his peers whom he compared to the degenerate race of yahoo. The word houyhnhnm means "horse", and by its etymology: "perfection of nature"; all this according to Swift, of course.
In biology it is the "abnormal reduction of carbon dioxide in cells, especially when they are from the blood", which can lead to death. It is formed by the prefix hypo- ("underneath, reduction") and the component capno ("smoke", which in this case is associated with CO?) . See dioxide, carbon.
In the popular belief of spells and witchcraft, 'black magic' is what produces evils and damage using evil spirits and entities. It is usually called necromancy, which is a confusion by necromancy precisely because in Latin nigrum is "lustrous black" and sounded similar. See white magic.
