macondiano
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Macondo + -iano. Macondo is a fictional town that serves as the setting of Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Adjective edit
macondiano (feminine mancondiana, masculine plural macondianos, feminine plural mancondianas)
- (Latin America) surreal; bizarre
- 2017 March 31, “Dulce bellum inexpertis”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Durante aquella brevísima tregua, una intolerable tristeza, una macondiana melancolía hizo presa a los compañeros de Cuervo: hacer la paz les resultaba ignominioso.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Latin America) fictional
Further reading edit
- “macondiano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014