camarilla
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪlə
Noun
camarilla (plural camarillas)
- A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
- 1990 September 20, Wall Street Journal:
- The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.
- 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 369:
- The negotiation dripped with bad faith on both sides, with a powerful Austrian camarilla always seeing it as a short-term deal with the Hungarians to be followed by retribution in due course.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ma.ʁi.ja/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “camarilla”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Further reading
- camarilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kamaˈɾiʝa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kamaˈɾiʎa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kamaˈɾiʃa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kamaˈɾiʒa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʒa]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa
- Syllabification: ca‧ma‧ri‧lla
Noun
camarilla f (plural camarillas)
- a secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal
- "El objetivo implícito de esta línea de pensamiento es un mundo de pesadilla en el que el líder, o alguna camarilla gobernante, controla no sólo el futuro sino también el pasado." — George Orwell, «Mirando hacia atrás a la guerra civil española.» (otoño de 1942)
Further reading
- “camarilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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