Legal figure of Roman Law that was applied to a city or collective subjected after offering resistance: Unconditional surrender that gave rise to a city or stipendary tribe. The alternative was the deditio in dictionem, surrender in rebellion, which meant that Rome could raze the city, execute its leaders, and sell its inhabitants into slavery.
It is the ahuehuete, (Word of the Nahuatl: old water tree), also of the cupresácea family, taxodium mucronatum, Mexican national tree, some of whose specimens are centenarians and even millenary as the Tule tree or the sad night tree. Here in Madrid we also have our old ahuehuete in the Retiro, a singular tree of the Community of Madrid, of much discussed age that some exaggerated carry until the sixteenth century.
Crasis of Portuguese and Spanish, Hispanic, Iberian, Iberia, Iberian. Portuñol is not the most beautiful name for the Iberian Union, of Spain and Portugal in a State. It could also be called Iberia, Confederation of Iberian States or in some other way. The name is the least . The beautiful thing would be the Union to which many of us have aspired a long time ago.
Female deiphobe, who fears god. This is what they called the Sibyl of Cumas, which although born in Ionia, issued its oracles in a grotto of this Italian city on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Now in many cathedrals of our Mediterranean Levant the Song of the Sibyl is represented on Christmas Eve.
Of phallos, phallus and phero, carry. Festive processions held in ancient Greece in honor of Priapus and Dionysus in which the phallophore priest, surrounded by dancing maenads and satyrs, wore a large wooden phallus, symbol of fertility, singing and reciting obscene and procaces verses.
Yes, this little Segovian village located next to the N 6 or road of La Coruña almost 100 km from Madrid in which our Argentine colleague has noticed, is special. Here Died Onésimo Redondo, founder of the JONS, confronted with militias of the CNT on July 24, 36. Some say he mistook them for the Falangists. His brother was able to flee among the wheat fields even without mowing that turbulent month.
Flor del sol, in Basque. Thistle that used to be placed on the door of Basque dwellings as protection against evil spirits and witches with some resemblance to the Celtic rosette hexapétala that also represents the sun. It is the asteraceae plant carlina acaulis which are also called sesame, carasol, carduncho, curly thistle, San Pelegrín thistle. . . .
Of polys pennyroyals, city and erkos erkeos, wall, defense, fenced, enclosure. Poliorkeo means to besiege, to block. Military discipline that deals with the different techniques of attack and defense of strongholds or fortresses. The Macedonian king Demetrius I of the Hellenistic period was nicknamed Poliorcetes for his detreza in the siege of the cities.
Expression of celebration and jubilation that the Romans shouted in the streets constantly in the Saturnal Feasts that they celebrated now, the days before the winter solstice from December 17 to 23: Happy Saturnalia! . Expression similar to our Merry Christmas! but with more longing for physical enjoyment than spiritual. Wine was not lacking and slaves exchanged their roles with their masters. Christianized the empire, Christmas covered with its delicate mantle these festivities dedicated to Saturn, the god who dethroned his father Uranus by mowing his virility and then ate his own children.
Statuettes of clay, wax or bread that the Romans gave themselves in the Saturnalias in a festive atmosphere and revelry. They could have very different forms; some represented the god Priapus or were shaped like a phallus. Everyone shouted: Io Saturnalia! wearing on his head the pileo or Phrygian cap typical of freed slaves.
English neologism well defined by comrades Katiana and Manuel, derived from gentry, aristocracy, haute bourgeoisie, people of high social status, taken from the realm of urbanism and sociology. Process of residential elitization or urban requalification by the progressive penetration into a neighborhood or urban area of people with a social status higher than that of the residents. This term has slept for some time at the door of the RAE, as its director Santiago Muñoz Machado says and finally they have opened the door as to many other words.
The latest update of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) that has just been presented by the academic Paz Battaner presents this term, among many others, as a situation of conflict, a mess, a, a ballplayer, that of God is Christ, that of San Quintín, a zipizape, a fuss, a chaos, the marimorena, a anger, a tumult, a fight, a stir
From the Greek ichnos, footprint, vestige. Term of Geology that designates the fossilized footprint of the limbs of animals that lived many millions of years ago. In the route of the dinosaurs of la Rioja hundreds of sites of ichnites are preserved that until the twentieth century the popular imagination attributed to the horse of the apostle Santiago.
