Post by Robie on Jun 17, 2007 12:50:33 GMT -3
Nunca he escuchado esta palabra, pero la recibí ayer como "la palabra del día" por Collins dictionary.com. Me interesa mucho.
inri, noun
to make matters worse, to cap it all
Because culture in Spain has been very influenced by the Catholic Church, there is a lot of religious imagery in the language. This imagery extends to informal and colloquial phrases, such as para más inri, to make matters worse, to cap it all.
No le ayudaba el hecho de ser mujer, y, para más inri, con vaqueros.
The fact she was a woman, and, to cap it all, wearing jeans, didn’t help.
The phrase comes from the letters written on a sign on the Cross when Christ was crucified: INRI, short for the Latin Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, meaning Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
inri, noun
to make matters worse, to cap it all
Because culture in Spain has been very influenced by the Catholic Church, there is a lot of religious imagery in the language. This imagery extends to informal and colloquial phrases, such as para más inri, to make matters worse, to cap it all.
No le ayudaba el hecho de ser mujer, y, para más inri, con vaqueros.
The fact she was a woman, and, to cap it all, wearing jeans, didn’t help.
The phrase comes from the letters written on a sign on the Cross when Christ was crucified: INRI, short for the Latin Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, meaning Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
