madriguera
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin mātrīcāria (“related to the womb”), from Latin mātrīx (“womb”). The semantic development could mirror the one in cunīculus (“underground tunnel; rabbit”) if indeed related to cunnus (“vagina”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /madɾiˈɡeɾa/ [ma.ð̞ɾiˈɣ̞e.ɾa]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾa
- Syllabification: ma‧dri‧gue‧ra
Noun
madriguera f (plural madrigueras)
- burrow, den, sett, warren
- 2022 October 9, Manuel Viejo, Elisa Silió, “El difícil camino para que no se repitan los gritos del Ahuja: “Sois unas pedazo de mierdas. ¡Putas!””, in El País[1]:
- Embravecido, se asoma y como si fuera una jirafa, saca el cuello por la ventana para vociferar: “¡Putas, salid de vuestras madrigueras como conejas! […] ”
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- hideout, hiding place
- den (for criminals)
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See also
Further reading
- “madriguera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024