- vocabulario - Where does the word quicio come from? - Spanish . . .
The quicio of a door is basically the part where it joins the frame: quicio m Parte de las puertas o ventanas en que entra el espigón del quicial, y en que se mueve y gira
- ¿De dónde proviene la expresión botar la piedra?
Sacar de quicio, es colocar a alguien fuera de sí, 'sacar la piedra' también Muy usada en Venezuela con la variante pronominal 'me' "Me saca la piedra" Por cierto, el Mono Kini de Carlos Donoso, el ventrílocuo, usaba mucho la frase: "Me saca la piedra" Que en paz descanse
- What would be a good translation of loophole?
Loophole is "an ambiguity or inadequacy in a system, such as a law or security, which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the intent, implied or explicitly stated, of the system " None of
- Where does «estribor» come from? - Spanish Language Stack Exchange
In Spanish, the right side of a ship (and everything beyond said side) is called « estribor » I know enough about sailing to guess that it can't possibly have anything to do with a «estribo» (which is where you put your feet when you ride a horse) So more than once I've wondered: maybe «estribor» comes from English «starboard»? I've done my fair bit of research: RAE dictionary says
- Whats the origin of the word mimo? - Spanish Language Stack Exchange
Finding in website from RAE, the Mapa de diccionarios shows in the Dictionary of 1780 the next definition of Mimar Hacer caricias, halagos y amores á otro Blandiri, mimos facere The italic words are the latin translation of the word, so it's looks that the origin is Latin But in other romance language (Italian or French) use other words Only in the iberian romance languages survive the
- etimología - Does «bistec de res» differ from «bistec» or is the former . . .
When you go so much in details, dictionaries from one language to another could be worthless, try finding a definition in that language: bistec: Un filete, bistec, bisté o bife es cualquier corte de carne roja que haya sido cortada en forma de filete para el consumo humano and Res means beef here But you may want to know additional information, what part of the cow it is from, what quality
- How to say Does it come with. . . ? like at a restaurant
Today I was ordering at the local taqueria and I wanted to ask whether my meal came with chips The verbatim translation would use the verb 'venir', something like "viene con chips", but this seem
- How are wheels semantically related to knees, as rodilla (knees) is . . .
There are two main theories for this The simplest one is the round shape of the knee, possibly influenced by the name of the knee bone, the Dicciomed, among others, : Lat alto mediev rotella (m) es 'ruedecilla' pero también 'rótula'; en castellano por metonimia de la parte por el todo pasó a significar 'rodilla' y está documentado rodiella en 1236; rodilla desplazó a hinojo de lat
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