celaje
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish cielo meaning sky and the suffix -aje meaning -age.
Noun
editcelaje m (plural celajes)
- (painting) cloud effect
- skylight
- harbinger, herald
- (nautical) (group of) clouds
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- -Infalible -dijo-. Hay celaje allí, y no puede fallar la sentencia que dice: Fronilde nublada, Ficóbriga mojada.
- "Unfailing," he said. There are clouds over there, and the saying that goes: "Cloudy Fronilde, Wet Ficóbriga" cannot fail.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “celaje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014