The fifth colour in the rainbow is blue. Blue in Spanish is azul and comes from lapis lazuli, lazulī is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin lazulum taken from the Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward) and Persian لاجورد (lâjvard) both meaning sky or heaven. Lapis is the Latin word for stone, so lapis lazuli literally means ‘stone from the sky‘ or ‘stone …
Let’s look today at another important member of the family. The brother of your mother or father, your uncle, is known as tío in Spanish. It was inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tio, originating from Late Latin thīus, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Latin American Pronunciation European Pronunciation Tío is a masculine noun, and of course, …
The Spanish word for the fruit apple, manzana, is from an Iberian vulgar dialect word mattiana, which is a shortened form of the Vulgar Latin mālum matianum, a specific type of apple, “Apples of Matius.” Mattiana became mazana or maçana in Old Spanish. Latin American pronunciation European pronunciation Manzana is a feminine noun, so it takes the following definite …
The Spanish word for animal should be incredibly easy for English speakers to remember as it is spelled in exactly the same way (albeit with a slightly different pronunciation)! Latin American Pronunciation European Pronunciation As in English, the Spanish animal can act as both a noun, describing the living things themselves, or an adjective, denoting …
If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would probably be cheese, known as queso in Spanish. Queso derives from the Old Spanish queso, which in turn comes from the Latin cāseus. Latin American pronunciation European pronunciation Queso is a masculine noun, so it takes the following definite and indefinite articles: ¡Podría comer queso …
What is one cooking ingredient that make even the blandest of dishes taste delicious? Why, salt, of course! Salt translates to sal in Spanish and both words can be traced back to the Latin sal (genitive salis) of the same meaning. Latin American Pronunciation European Pronunciation Because it is a feminine noun, it takes the …