tertulia
See also: tertúlia
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɜːˈtuːlɪə/
Noun
tertulia (plural tertulias)
- 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.
- 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
Spanish
FWOTD – 5 September 2015
Etymology
Unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /terˈtulja/, [t̪erˈt̪ulja]
Noun
tertulia f (plural tertulias)
- a regular social gathering, a circle
- 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.
- 1998, Federico Utrera, Carmen de Burgos, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Memorias de Colombine, la primera periodista, Hijos de Muley-Rubio →ISBN, page 280
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tertulia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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