cantárida

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin Cantharida, from Latin canthăris.

Noun

cantárida f (plural cantáridas)

1. Spanish fly
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 242:

     Una pequeña dosis del polvo de siete cantáridas, basta para rendir la voluntad de la persona a quien se dé a tomar.

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Derived terms

• cantárida medicinal

 

Further reading

• “cantárida”, 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