The word-sniffer: “sopudo”, “bicigrino”, “uroboro”…

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2024-04-20 09:14:21

For another fortnight, the FundéuRAE scans the media in search of words that catch our attention, either because of their novelty or for any other reason.

The purpose of this word searcher is nothing more than to collect a selection of them, without inclusion in the list implying acceptance or censorship.

⇒ When rice absorbs too much water, it can become sopudo, that is, more sticky and moist than it should, as if it were a soup. The suffix -⁠udo indicates abundance, great size, or intensity, as in bearded, brainy, conscientious y macanudo.

⇒ The pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago has traditionally been done on foot, but there are those who travel the route by bicycle. Are the bicigrinosa voice created quite obviously by acronym.

⇒ The uroboro It is a circular figure in which a snake or dragon swallows its tail, as a symbol of the cycles of life, of the universe… This name is an adaptation, according to traditional Spanish guidelines, from Greek ouroboros (rainbow). Sometimes the ending that is preserved, and anti-etymological variants of ouroboros y ouróborosamong other.

⇒ With the termination -⁠geno esdrújula voices are derived in which the idea of ​​generation or production is expressed, such as tear gas, carcinogenic, criminogenicObesogenicwhich functions as an adjective and as a noun, refers to the chemical agents that promote obesity, although they do not cause it directly.

⇒ Due to its formation with the suffix -ero —which, among other functions, expresses position, occupation, office…—, a tierrero It can be someone who has some activity related to land or land, whether legitimate or fraudulent, such as the occupation and sale of properties that are not owned.

⇒ Voyager 1 has once again sent intelligible data to Earth, so it can receive information about what it finds beyond the Earth. heliopausa, which is where the influence of the solar wind ends and interstellar space begins. The element helio- means ‘Sun’ and also gives its name to the noble gas called, precisely, helio.

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