tertulia

See also: tertúlia and tertulià

English

Etymology

From Spanish tertulia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɜːˈtuːlɪə/

Noun

tertulia (plural tertulias)

1. An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.
   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:

     At this the man at the left who’d so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench tertulia.

Anagrams

• liturate, rutilate

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teɾˈtulja/ [t̪eɾˈt̪u.lja]
• Rhymes: -ulja
• Syllabification: ter‧tu‧lia

Etymology 1

FWOTD – 5 September 2015

Unknown origin. See Wikipedia entry.

Noun

tertulia f (plural tertulias)

1. regular social gathering, circle
   • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:

     No me van mal las cosas, me acuesto con putas y soy asiduo de dos bares en donde tengo mi tertulia, como dicen aquí.

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   • 1998, Federico Utrera, Carmen de Burgos, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Memorias de Colombine, la primera periodista, Hijos de Muley-Rubio, →ISBN, page 280:

     Un día me encuentro a Rafa Cansinos y me hace una confidencia: - Ramón ha fundado una tertulia literaria en la antigua botillería de Pombo, que se conserva como en los tiempos de su inauguración, allá bajo el reinado de Isabel II.

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2. (broadcasting) talk show (television or radio programme in which a host converses on various topics with guests)

Derived terms

• tertuliano
• tertuliar

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: tertúlia
• → Portuguese: tertúlia

Noun

tertulia f (plural tertulias)

1. female equivalent of tertulio

Etymology 2

Verb

tertulia

1. inflection of tertuliar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tertulia”, 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