elisheba has looked up 13 words, created 5 lists, listed 79 words, written 75 comments, added 8 tags, and loved 13 words.
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It's the latin name for the Common Hazel, named after the town of Avella by (according to Wikipedia) Linnaeus, from Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (1542), where the species was described as "Avellana nux sylvestris" ("wild nut of Avella").
It also sounds pretty! -
Ciao Eli. Forza con la traduzione! E' certo che la concentrazione e' necessaria. Ti aspettiamo con una triste pazienza :-7
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Ma dove ti nascondi ora?
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Eli, a Bologna non ci sono mai stato. Ma ho visto il Palazzo dei Banchi sul tuo Flickr :-) Infatti devo tornare in Italia per un lavorino ma attendo la casa editrice a dirmi quando.
Ci vediamo alla fontana? -
Wow, you ask questions in threes ... are you a game show host?! I spent 3 years in Italy, up until fairly recently. I studied Italian for the first half of my time there and then wrote a couple of books. In the end I left because I'd done what I set out to do, and because it's hard to get long-term legal status when you are extracommunitario. But I have plenty of excuses to go back, which is good!
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*lifts one ear*
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Not many, if you count only people who comment on words, it's just you and me...
Oh wow, now we can say very bad things about Wordies in our secret language! -
Italian Wordie? Me too! Time to create a club and colonize this place.
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You're very welcome--and welcome to Wordie. :-)
elisheba commented on the word ciupéta
ferrarese dialect for 'coppietta' (little pair). a variety of italian bread from ferrara consisting in two crossed thin, spiral-shaped baguettes
Aug 21, 2009
elisheba commented on the word walking bus
'piedibus'... what a bad example of macaronic latin :-S
Mar 29, 2009
elisheba commented on the word muah
same in italian. sounds like a cross-linguistic onomatopoeia
Dec 31, 2008
elisheba commented on the user corylusavellana
i was wondering whether your name has anything to do with the fonte avellana monastery in italy (in the marche region). which to me is almost synonym with the glades of arcady :)
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Dec 31, 2008
elisheba commented on the word symposiarque
in ancient Rome he was referred to as a tricliniarca, from triclinium, the luxurious Roman dining room
Dec 22, 2008
elisheba commented on the word chrestus
early latin version of Christus. this was also one of the names of the Egyptian god Serapis, and can also be translated as 'Messiah'
Dec 18, 2008
elisheba commented on the word still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
what a fool believes, he sees, it's always better than nothing (at all) :-D
Dec 18, 2008
elisheba commented on the list lost-in-transgenderation
i think "buona donna" only sounds derogatory in the euphemistic expression "figlio di buona donna" (literally, "son of a good woman"). otherwise it's unmarked
Nov 12, 2008
elisheba commented on the word gnome
Oct 29, 2008
elisheba commented on the word donutiverous
if i get what you mean, shouldn't it be donutivorous, by analogy with omnivorous/carnivorous, etc.?
Oct 29, 2008
elisheba commented on the user bilby
hey bilby! scusami se non mi faccio sentire, ma sto traducendo un libro dall'inglese, si tratta di un lavoro molto importante per me, perciò ho bisogno della massima concentrazione. però a fine novembre... i'll be back on track, be sure ;-)
Oct 27, 2008
elisheba commented on the word aldebaran
and doesn't it sound heavenly, too? :-)))
Oct 13, 2008
elisheba commented on the word mental environment
refers to the sum of all societal influences upon mental health. the term is often used in a context critical of the mental environment in industrialized societies. it is argued that just as industrial societies produce physical toxins and pollutants which harm humans' physical health, they also produce psychological toxins (e.g. television, excessive noise, violent marketing tactics, psychotropic drugs) that cause psychological damage. this poor mental environment may help explain why rates of mental illness are higher in industrial societies than in the developing world. (from wikipedia)
Oct 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the list this-modern-world
this is a very interesting list indeed
Oct 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the word culture jamming
a form of cultural sabotage inspired by situationism. a contemporary practice aimed at countering the invasion and omnipresence of commercial messages conveyed through the mass media, and their influence on human imagination and on the human mind.
It consists in deconstructing the texts and images of media industry through the technique of estrangement and detournement. the aim is to free individuals from their role as passive receivers and encourage them to critical consumption and a greater awareness of media language.
Oct 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the list italian-politics
after all, there is nothing serious about italian politics these days... everything's ridiculous :-D :-((
Sep 19, 2008
elisheba commented on the word carfree
SEPTEMBER 22 IS WORLD CARFREE DAY!
click on the logo!
Sep 19, 2008
elisheba commented on the word monnezza
italian regional (central-southern) word for 'immondizia' (= garbage). the italian media have often used it to refer to the garbage crisis around naples and the campania region. adds a touch of local color to those piles of garbage...
Sep 19, 2008
elisheba commented on the list italian-politics
erm... it seems i have skipped the list description. only ridiculous words are admitted. but maybe we could extend the lexicon to serious words and expressions as well... wouldn't that be interesting, too?
Sep 19, 2008
elisheba commented on the list mythical-qualities
wow, mythical qualities list is the most peopled of my lists now!! thank you, wordies! :-))
Sep 18, 2008
elisheba commented on the word la casta
'the caste'. an expression coined by italian journalist gian antonio stella, and the title of his book about the privileges and corruption of the italian political class.
http://tinyurl.com/3t77zh
Sep 18, 2008
elisheba commented on the list italian-politics
thanks for creating this list, prolagus! we're gonna have lots of laughs (or shed lots of tears...)
Sep 17, 2008
elisheba commented on the word herculean
nice add bilby, thanks! :-) more contributions are welcome!
Sep 17, 2008
elisheba commented on the word caryatid
the 'sala delle cariatidi' in milan is a very atmospheric, redolent XVIII century hall of mirrors in the royal palace, you can see some photos of it here (taken by elisheba:-)): http://tinyurl.com/5nh58n
Sep 17, 2008
elisheba commented on the list ancient-greek-costume-box
great list, jingle!
Sep 17, 2008
elisheba commented on the word caryatid
in italian, a cariatide caryatid is also a pejorative noun for an old, backward-looking person (e.g. una vecchia cariatide del regime - a diehard caryatid of the regime), or a mature/old woman.
Sep 17, 2008
elisheba commented on the word caryatid
the male counterpart of a caryatid is called telamon, and coincides with the mythological figure of the titan, Atlas
Sep 17, 2008
elisheba commented on the word porosity
that was illuminating, thank you! :-)
Sep 15, 2008
elisheba commented on the user delirium
hi, I'm a fellow translator with a music addiction problem :-))
Sep 15, 2008
elisheba commented on the word porosity
porosity/porousness. what are the differences in usage?
Sep 15, 2008
elisheba commented on the word reizüberflutung
it's a nice metaphor. in english the image evokes the idea of weight, burden - in german of water, flooding, swamping...
Sep 15, 2008
elisheba commented on the user bilby
volentieri bilby! fammi sapere quando vieni. e complimenti per il tuo ottimo italiano! mi fa piacere che tu abbia dato un'occhiata al mio flickr, ci sono molte altre foto di bologna... sei anche tu su flickr? :-) a presto
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the user bilby
http://dizionari.repubblica.it/
the english bilingual dictionary is a very good resource ;-)
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the list adbusters-lexicon
thank you! i will add definitions as soon as i can (i have to write them from scratch)
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the word extracomunitario
italian, spelt with one 'm'
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the user bilby
coming back to italy soon? that's great news, bilby! have you ever been to bologna? :-)
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the word loan
lo 'steig', ahahah :-)) agreed prolagus! i fear this will soon become the standard pronunciation... whether we like it or not, ignorance and mistakes in general are one of the main propulsive forces behind linguistic evolution...
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the word loan
still, if you ban weekend and ok, you may as well ban ALL loans from the italian language (!)
they've been with us for decades now, and are no longer perceived as foreign. so, while i agree that too many english imports - i mean words imported 'as they are', not calques - threaten to 'stunt' the growth of the italian language (but then look at german and the other german languages, the situation is even worse), i think being too strict is outmoded and unrealistic: linguistic trends are uncontrollable, a bit like viral epidemics, there's no use trying to fence them in...
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the word loan
Italians vote for ugliest English loan words: the Dante Alighieri Society list
http://snurl.com/3q4cg
Sep 14, 2008
elisheba commented on the word googly
i've read the article, which is really interesting. google and antitrust...
Sep 13, 2008
elisheba commented on the word gamut
thanks for this explanation, shevek!
Sep 12, 2008
elisheba commented on the word sympathy
and here she is, right on my desktop :-))
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although you can't see it, i assure you she's vibrating in sympathy with my every keyboard stroke :-D
Sep 12, 2008
elisheba commented on the word sympathy
"to vibrate in sympathy" (usually referred to musical instruments, e.g. strings).
p.s. i love my tiny wooden turtle whose head is hypersensitive and oscillates with the slightest vibrations :-)
Sep 12, 2008
elisheba commented on the user Prolagus
not on bilby... judging from the words on his Italiano list, he would immediately get us :-D
Sep 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the word cafone
alas, cafonaggine is very common in italy, as well as menefreghismo... :-(
Sep 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the user bilby
that's interesting. how long ago was that? were you studying/working in italy? how long did you stay? am i asking too much questions? :-D
Sep 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the list italiano-2
che carina questa lista! :-)
Sep 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the user Prolagus
yeah paisà :-D from bologna
let's get connected! how many of us are there on wordie?
Sep 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the word capo di tutti capo
is something i really can't DIGEST about my country :@#
Sep 10, 2008
elisheba commented on the word diavolerio
hmm, not sure. michelangeli came from brescia (lombardia). some dictionaries do not list it as regional. ah, and of course it has to do with devils making a hell of a mess :-D
Sep 10, 2008