adefesio
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ad Ephesĭos (“to the Ephesians”), title of an epistle of St. Paul, an allusion to the penalties imposed on the saint in Ephesus during his preaching.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]adefesio m or f (masculine and feminine plural adefesios)
Noun
[edit]adefesio m (plural adefesios)
- ugly, ridiculous person or thing
- 2017 May 25, Javier Vivas Santana, “Asesinar al pueblo para imponer una dictadura”, in El Nacional[1]:
- En consecuencia, el madurismo pretende asesinar al chavismo con una puñalada en el corazón de su pensamiento, al intentar derogar la Constitución y sustituirla por un adefesio jurídico que acabe con el protagonismo del pueblo en la toma de sus principales decisiones […]
- Thus, Madurism hopes to kill off Chavism by stabbing it in the heart of its belief, trying to repeal the Constitution and replace it with a legal car crash that does away with the protagonism of the people in its main decision-making.
- idiotic action
Further reading
[edit]- “adefesio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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