cantinela
Spanish
editEtymology
editPerhaps a variant of cantilena. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcantinela f (plural cantinelas)
- (colloquial) old story, same old same old, same old song and dance
- la misma cantinela ― the same old story
- 2020 June 14, Elvira Lindo, “¡Señorita Escarlata, señorita Escarlata!”, in El País[1]:
- De hecho, cuando éramos niños pensábamos que las esclavas hablaban de esa manera ridícula en que eran interpretadas por las actrices de doblaje: “Señorita Escarlata, señorita Escarlata”. Todas hemos recitado la insufrible cantinela.
- In fact, when we were kids we through that slaves talked in that ridiculous way they they were played by voice actresses: "Miss Scarlett, Miss Scarlett." We've all recited the same insufferable song and dance.
- gist
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cantinela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014