querencia
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
querencia (plural querencias)
- (bullfighting) The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand. [from 1930s]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 332:
- Once hit, a rebel unit must be hit again, and remain hit; the army must penetrate the querencia where – like a fighting bull – it was at home, and stay there, driving it out into unknown and unfriendly territory.
- 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
- The wolf paced and circled limping on three legs and then crouched by the iron stake where it seemed she’d made her querencia.
- (New Mexico) homesickness, nostalgia
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From querer (“to want”) + -encia.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /keˈɾenθja/ [keˈɾẽn̟.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /keˈɾensja/ [keˈɾẽn.sja]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -enθja
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: que‧ren‧cia
Noun edit
querencia f (plural querencias)
- longing, want
- Synonym: anhelo
- homesickness, nostalgia
- the homing instinct of an animal
- (bullfighting) the bull's querencia
- an animal's lair
- Synonyms: guarida, madriguera
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Further reading edit
- “querencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014