grieta

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish crieta, from Vulgar Latin *crepta, from Latin crepita, passive participle of crepō (to crack).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾjeta/ [ˈɡɾje.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -eta
  • Syllabification: grie‧ta

Noun

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grieta f (plural grietas)

  1. crack, chink, crevice
    • 1951 [1802], Novalis, chapter IX, in Germán Bleiberg, transl., Enrique de Ofterdingen (Colección Austral; 1008), Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, translation of Heinrich von Ofterdingen, page 143:
      [] en la estancia contigua, un rayo luminoso del mundo superior se filtra a través de una grieta de la roca [].
      In the adjacent room, a luminous ray from the world above is filtered through a crack of the stone.
  2. chap (cleft in the skin)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “grieta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 212-213

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