pasionaria
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish pasionaria (“passionate one”), nickname (La Pasionaria) of Spanish anti-fascist activist Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989)
Noun
[edit]pasionaria f (plural pasionarias)
- a female political activist, usually in a left-wing organization
Further reading
[edit]- “pasionaria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish pasionaria (“passionate one”), nickname (La Pasionaria) of Spanish anti-fascist activist Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989)
Noun
[edit]pasionaria f (invariable)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pasión, a reference to the passion of Jesus Christ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pasionaria f (plural pasionarias)
- passionflower (any of very many North American vines of the family Passifloraceae)
- 1956 [1944], Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes el memorioso”, in Ficciones, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, Artificios, page 117:
- Lo recuerdo […] con una oscura pasionaria en la mano, viéndola come nadie la ha visto, aunque la mirara desde el crepúsculo del día hasta el de la noche, toda una vida entera.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
[edit]pasionaria f
Further reading
[edit]- “pasionaria”, 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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