piélago
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See also: pielago
Old Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pelagus, from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos). See the modern descendant for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
piélago m (plural piélagos)
- (poetic) sea
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar fol. 2v. a.:
- aq̃llas / cibdades fizerõ ſe pielago de / agua.
- Those cities became a sea of water.
- aq̃llas / cibdades fizerõ ſe pielago de / agua.
- deep (part) of a river or lagoon
Synonyms
- mar m or f
Descendants
- Spanish: piélago
References
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “empalagar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 570
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish piélago, from Latin pelagus, from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos). Attested as early as the 13th century, in texts such as Semejanza del mundo (1223) and Calila e Dimna (1251). Corominas and Pascual note the term is popular, or inherited, in medieval Ibero-Romance.
Pronunciation
Noun
piélago m (plural piélagos)
- (nautical) the open sea; pelagic waters
- (poetic, literary) the sea
- 1913, Lisímaco Chavarría, Manojo de guarias, La Roca de Carballo:
- Semejase a una esfinge de pedernal eterno
erguida ante el abismo del piélago sonoro;
sobre ella el Sol despunta doscientos dardos de oro
y ante ella el mar levanta su canto sempiterno.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1663, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Fortunas de Andrómeda y Perseo, act 1, page 69:
- envidioso al ver Neptuno
que el aire en su espacio tenga
más bello golfo de ondas,
cuyos piélagos navegan
en bajeles de marfil- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (figuratively) something vast, countless, innumerable
- Synonym: mar
- un piélago de cosas
- innumerable things
- 1883, Benito Pérez Galdós, El doctor Centeno:
- Usted, mi sabio amigo, engolfado en el tumultuoso piélago de las cartas que apartadas regiones del universo mundo le dirigen, no ha apreciado el veloz paso del tiempo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1938, Ministerio de Justicia, Revista de Educación, Paraguay:
- […] a perderse en el piélago del proletariado intelectual
- get lost in the vastness of intellectual proletariat
- (archaic) pond, reservoir
Related terms
References
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “empalagar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 570
Further reading
- “piélago”, 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