timorato
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timorato (feminine timorata, masculine plural timorati, feminine plural timorate)
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timōrātō
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin timōrātus (“God-fearing”).
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timorato (feminine timorata, masculine plural timoratos, feminine plural timoratas)
- shy; weak-willed
- 1999, Pascal Quignard, El Odio a la Musica: Diez Pequenos Tratados:
- En Roma se consideraba que los ciervos eran animales timoratos, indignos de los senadores (que preferían los jabalíes), porque huían al ser atacados y supuestamente adoraban la música
- In Rome, crows were considered to be shy animals, unworthy of the senators (who preferred boars), because they fled when attacked and apparently loved music
- prudish
- god-fearing
- 1882, José Zorrilla, La leyenda del Cid:
- Llegó el enviado apostólico
a Burgos; muy reverente
le recibió el Rey, y el Nuncio
le mostró mucho copete.
Temblaron los timoratos,
se ofendieron los prudentes,
indignáronse los nobles:- The apostolic dispatch arrived
to Burgos; very reverently
it received the King, and the Nuncio
showed him much quiff.
The god-fearers shook,
the prudent ones were offended,
the nobles were indignated:
- The apostolic dispatch arrived
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- “timorato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014