celaje
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish cielo meaning sky and the suffix -aje meaning -age.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /θeˈlaxe/ [θeˈla.xe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈlaxe/ [seˈla.xe]
- Rhymes: -axe
- Syllabification: ce‧la‧je
Noun
[edit]celaje m (plural celajes)
- (painting) cloud effect
- skylight
- harbinger, herald
- (nautical) (group of) clouds
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- -Infalible -dijo-. Hay celaje allí, y no puede fallar la sentencia que dice: Fronilde nublada, Ficóbriga mojada.
- "Unfailing," he said. There are clouds over there, and the saying that goes: "Cloudy Fronilde, Wet Ficóbriga" cannot fail.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “celaje”, 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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