aciago
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin Aegyptiacus (diēs) (“fateful day”, literally “Egyptian day”). Egyptian days were certain days of the year considered to be unlucky during the Middle Ages. Compare Portuguese aziago.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθjaɡo/ [aˈθja.ɣ̞o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsjaɡo/ [aˈsja.ɣ̞o]
- Rhymes: -aɡo
- Syllabification: a‧cia‧go
Adjective
[edit]aciago (feminine aciaga, masculine plural aciagos, feminine plural aciagas)
- unlucky, ill-fated, unfortunate
- 2020 July 13, “Feijóo conquista su cuarta mayoría absoluta y Urkullu se refuerza”, in El País[1]:
- Para los dos partidos en el Gobierno de España, la jornada fue más aciaga, sobre todo para Podemos, que salió zarandeado: quedó fuera del Parlamento gallego y perdió la mitad de su representación en Euskadi.
- For the two parties in the Spanish Government, the day was more unfortunate, especially for Podemos, which came out shaken: it was left out of the Galician Parliament and lost half of its representation in Euskadi.
- 2022 December 31, Ignacio Fariza, “Elon Musk o cómo dilapidar 124.000 millones en un año”, in El País[2]:
- Tras un dulce 2021 para Elon Musk —cuando se coronó como el hombre más rico del mundo—, un 2022 aciago.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
[edit]aciago m (plural aciagos)
Further reading
[edit]- “aciago”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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