avemaría
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin Avē Maria (literally “hail, Mary”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]avemaría m (plural avemarías)
- Hail Mary
- Angelus
- Synonym: ángelus
- Hail Mary (act done in desperation with little chance of success)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “avemaría”, 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