dehesa
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Late Latin dēfēnsa, from the feminine of Latin dēfēnsus (“bounded, defended”), perfect passive participle of dēfendō. Doublet of defensa, which was borrowed.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdehesa f (plural dehesas)
- meadow
- Synonym: vega
- pasture
- Synonym: pasto
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 227:
- A un capataz de la hacienda de mi padre oí contar, hace muchos años, el gran susto que había tenido en cierta ocasión, al verse rodeado súbitamente, en la dehesa en que estaba, de un centenar de animales, entre los cuales había algunas reses bravas, que, sin embargo, se mostraron esta vez tan inofensivas y acobardadas como las mansas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
editFurther reading
edit- “dehesa”, 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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