tertulia

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See also: tertúlia

English

Etymology

From Spanish tertulia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tertulia (plural tertulias)

  1. An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.
    • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
      At this the man at the left who’d so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench tertulia.

Anagrams


Spanish

Etymology

Unknown origin. See Wikipedia entry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teɾˈtulja/ [t̪eɾˈt̪u.lja]

Noun

tertulia f (plural tertulias)

  1. a regular social gathering, a circle
    • 1998, Federico Utrera, Carmen de Burgos, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Memorias de Colombine, la primera periodista, Hijos de Muley-Rubio →ISBN, page 280
      Un día me encuentro a Rafa Cansinos y me hace una confidencia: - Ramón ha fundado una tertulia literaria en la antigua botillería de Pombo, que se conserva como en los tiempos de su inauguración, allá bajo el reinado de Isabel II.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: tertúlia

Further reading