From Latin myrtus and murtus and these from Greek myrtos, which they gave in the Languages Hispanomediterránea murta and in Spanish myrtle or arrayan. It is also a name for place names and localities perhaps because of the presence of this shrub, which for classical Greeks and Latinos had erotic semantic nuances for being dedicated to Venus or Aphrodite. That is why in some literary languages, such as the Cortázar glyglyc, it has a clear sexual significance.
In anthropometric studies it is the relationship between finger length ( 2 ) hand index and finger index ( 4 ) annular . Dividing ( 2 ) by ( 4 ) if the index is higher will give us more than the unit; less if the biggest is the annular. The average ratio of men appears to be 0 , 947 , that of women 0 , 965 .
Acronym of fish and small, diminutive as a child. Little fish No, thank you! He was praying for an advertising slogan from the 1980s that invited him not to consume small fish. The fish that's still small has to grow. Little fish you shouldn't eat. Fish, no, thank you! The term is mainly used in the plural also to designate very young children or people or minority groups.
Of thesmos, divine law and tithemi, dispose, save, institute, deposit in writing. The six superior athenian collegiate magistrates of the Heliea, the great eklesia or the supreme court established by 6. 000 citizens, responsible for reviewing the law and ensuring compliance. In the Constitution of the Athenians (Athenaion Politeia) Aristotle tells us about their functions.
Greek term meaning exchange, swap, change of fortune. It was one of the procedures to avoid the liturgy in classical Greece, that is, the obligation to pay for some public service with one's own fortune on the part of the wealthiest citizens. If anyone thought another was richer he proposed the change of fortune. If it were not accepted, a court would intervene in the assessment.
Gentilicio de Játiva (Xativa in Valencian), in Latin Saetabis, Levantine city of Valencia. A universal Setabense was the Baroque painter I have always admired, José de Ribera. The spagnoletto was called by the Italians for his low stature, a follower of Caravaggio's darkness and Van Dick's luminosity. He developed his art in 17th-century Naples.
With my imagination I ever move to the landscapes of my childhood. Moulting can refer to the cyclic changes of something, be it the skin of a snake we saw in the field, the fallow, the pastures of the pasiegos or anything else. You can also refer to a woman who can't speak or quiet as some sexist song says. But in my postwar children's memories, moulting is the change of clothes we made on Sunday morning.
Aragoneseism. Erosive geological formations in the form of clustered chimneys (fairy chimneys) in which the head is of some more resistant mineral. Geologists call this vertical karst erosion sufosión and the English piping (pipe, pipe) or duct formation as stalagmites even if their formative process is reversed (by erosion). The Aguarales de Valpalmas or Aguarales de Valdemiraz north of Zaragoza are magical landscapes.
anglicism. The term etiolation, discoloration, was taken by the English of the French etioler, bleaching, weakening, withering, losing vigour. It is the process of developing plants in the absence of light with little or no chlorophyll, which gives them on weakened stems and leaves a white-yellow appearance similar to roots with little vascularity.
In my Alistan land, carcoma. They say around here that the wood gets the caruncho especially when it doesn't cut into a waning one. In Galicia they say so to the cuckold of rye, also fungo do rye, denton, horn, cornice, corvo fat, dente de can, cornicelo . In the film Black Purple (Sabela Iglesias and Adriana Villanueva) we talk about the bugle of my childhood. How I renegade the rye's m cool in the era when the year had been rainy! Good thing we ate wheat bread. Then the animals had strange behaviors and, of course, witches were blamed.
A veteran neighborhood doctor once visited him was told by a veteran ward doctor. -Good morning, ma'am. What's the matter with him? -Good, doctor, my mouth hurts. Well, sit on the gurney for a moment. And the lady started taking off her clothes. "But ma'am, haven't you told me your mouth hurts? Why are you naked? -Yes, Doctor, because it's the mouth my husband comes through.
