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hiperónimo
  69

Technicality of the semantics of Greek etymology, hyper, envelope, above and onomatous onoma, name. Logical-linguistic category that includes within itself others of a lower hierarchical order. When we classify reality we tend to sort it descending from the general or universal to the particular as logicists or botanists do in their taxonomies. The terms above are hyperonycons compared to those below that are hyponimos, (from hypo, below). In the scientific nomenclature of botanists, for example, the generic name is hyperonym and the specific hyponym.

  
kalokagathia
  63

Greek term, fusion of kalós kai agathós, beautiful and good, the ideal of physical and moral perfection. For Plato the kalokagathós was the philosopher, the lover of knowledge, the possessor of the areté. At Aristotle it has a sense of excellence, nobility and happiness. Herodotus and other authors also include the courage, bravery and loyalty of the soldier.

  
kalendas
  38

In Latin kalendae, the kalendas, the first day of each month, of the verb lime and the Greek kaleo, call, summon, announce. On this day the Pontifex Maximus announced to the people the date of the Nonas and the debt collectors called the debtors by name.

  
gambito
  34

As our Dictionary says the word comes from the Italian gambetto and sgambetto, stilt, (fare lo sgambetto , put the stilt, dare il gambetto, set a trap), diminutive of prawn, leg. The term was introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish humanist priest and chess player Rodrigo López de Segura in his Book of Invention and Art of the Game of Chess as an opening of this game in which some piece is exhibited to gain advantages. In today's world of chess there are many types of gambit. The most common is that of a lady.

  
glucólisis
  27

Also glycolysis, from Greek glykys, sweet taste and lysis, action of unleashing, dissolution : sugar rupture. It is a biochemical process that living cells perform in their cytoplasm (mitochondria) to feed by breaking down glucose molecules that result in other molecules of ethanol, CO2 and ATP (adenosine triphosphate). The latter is what they are looking for to feed themselves, the rest are undone. However in the fermentation of the wine that the yeasts ( saccharomyces serevisiae ) what we are interested in is the disposal of ethanol.

  
tercias reales
  38

Also decimal tertiary, which I see that controls our Open Dictionary, the ninth, income that the Church bested to the Crown since the thirteenth century, consisting of two ninth of the tithes it collected from the peasants from the tenth century with the repopulation north of the Douro. Alexander VI granted the Catholic Monarchs definitively this right of the two ninths.

  
alodio
  69

From medieval Latin allodium and east of the ancient Saxon all-od, heritage, wealth. System of ownership of the Old Regime proper to royals or jurisdictional domains directly dependent on the king, in which the owner had direct and use domain over the territories and therefore had no stately burdens but only with the king.

  
alboroque
  36

Arabism, al-buruk, commission or percentage received by the intermediary of a sale. Garlic or gift in compensation for any service.

  
fumazga
  33

He also smokes, humiliates, smokes, smokes, fogage, smokes. Old Spanish. Tax in the territories of lordship for having house with fire and from which therefore smoke came, tribute entitled to smoke.

  
epilepsia gelástica
  38

From Greek epilepsy, sudden attack, epilamban verb, attack, interrupt, compress and gelasma gelasmates, laughter. Neurological disease characterized by seizures typical of epilepsy with uncontrolled and involuntary laughter that can reach the laughter. This anomalous situation of some people that usually lasts no more than a minute is usually due to an alteration of the hypothalamus or some other area of the brain.

  
calocedro
  36

Conifer of the Cupresaceous family, from Greek kalós, beautiful, beautiful and chedros, beautiful cedar, although it is not itself a cedar. They also call it incense cedar, red cedar, libodohedro and California white cedar because of its provenance. Calocedrus decurrens.

  
jojoba
  43

This term that already controls our Dictionary designates a shrub of dioeic nature originating from the deserts of Sonora and Arizona in northwestern Mexico and southwestern USA, ( simondsia chinensis or californica), shrub from which a liquid wax or oil highly valued since times is extracted by the American Indians of this area, the Tohono Oodham (desert people , in his language) from which the word jojoba also comes. This oil is obtained by pressing the seeds of this shrub.

  
piotr
  42

Also Pyotr, Piatro or Petro. Slavic proper name equivalent to our Peter, Pietro, Pierre or Peter. This was called the Russian composer Shaikovsky, the swan lake and the anarchist Kropotkin, the Mutual Support and the Conquest of bread.

  
encetar
  43

From Latin incept, start. It is an archaism as well as accentuating that is still used in my asturleonese land, but not with the sense of damaging or inshaving but that of starting the consumption of some food such as a ham or a loaf.

  
coqueluche
  30

Through Latin French cucullus, hood, as in the old days in France forced to carry a hood to those who suffered from this infectious disease also called cough or convulsive cough that sometimes ended with a kind of crow's edge, very dangerous especially for children under two years of age. Today's vaccines are a lot of problems for us.

  
marzadga
  32

Also marzazga, from Latin martiaticus, of the month of March ( Martius), as our Open Dictionary says. Tax of vassalage and submission that had to pay the king since the Middle Ages all non-ecclesiastical and devoid of the title of nobility in the month of March, after the harsh winter and after having paid the martiniega for St. Martin in November.

  
merindad
  37

Also merinote or merinodo, feudal geographical and administrative division led by a merino, judge with fiscal functions and also police or military, hence its unpopularity, mediator between the crown and the villas and lordships. This situation has been in the late 12th century in the kingdoms of Castile, Aragon and Navarre. In many places the name is still retained but not the administrative function. There are currently merindades in Palencia, Burgos, Cantabria and Navarra.

  
mencía
  45

Female proper name likely abbreviation of the sweet name of Mary ( noMEN dulCIs MariA ( e ) ), occasionally used in asturleonese and Galician areas. It is also the red grape variety of Bierzo Broths, Ribeira Sacra and Northern Portugal. Its cultivation on terraces in the canyons of the Sil goes back to the time of the Romans.

  
estrés hídrico
  51

Situation of tension and difficulty faced by plants in the face of lack of water especially in the summer. The water level of the plants results from the balance between the one they absorb by the roots and the one they give off in the traspiration by leaves, stomata and lenticelas. In the face of scarcity they seek solutions : limit evaporation and deepen the root. The old vine, for example, thus gives the grapes and wine new nuances and aromas, in the words of the connoisseurs.

  
egresado
  46

Americanism derived from egredior, going out, going outside a normally university academic institution after finishing school, that is, after graduation or graduating. It is therefore synonymous with graduate, graduate or graduate.

  






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