ácrata
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἀκρατής (akratḗs).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editácrata m or f (masculine and feminine plural ácratas)
- anarchic
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, Judas Iscariote:
- —¡Que te has vuelto erudito! ¿Con qué se come eso?
—Yo me entiendo, che, ésa es la terminología ácrata; así que vos también te regeneraste, trabajás, y te va bien.- "So you have become learned!" What do you eat that with?
—I understand, che, that's the anarchist terminology; so you also regenerated, you work, and you're doing well.
- "So you have become learned!" What do you eat that with?
Noun
editácrata m or f by sense (plural ácratas)
- anarchist
- 2016 July 3, “Gabo y yo”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Esa fue la pregunta que después no le hice al Gabo en una noche de conejitos y conejitas, todos contentos e incontinentes, en aquella arcadia ácrata que fuera alguna vez al sur de La Habana la ex-EICTV.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “ácrata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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