pasionaria

Borrowed from Spanish pasionaria (“passionate one”), nickname (La Pasionaria) of Spanish anti-fascist activist Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989)

pasionaria f (plural pasionarias)

1. a female political activist, usually in a left-wing organization

• “pasionaria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Spanish pasionaria (“passionate one”), nickname (La Pasionaria) of Spanish anti-fascist activist Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989)

pasionaria f (invariable)

1. a female fighter in a left-wing organization

From pasión, a reference to the passion of Jesus Christ.

• IPA^(key): /pasjoˈnaɾja/ [pa.sjoˈna.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: pa‧sio‧na‧ria

pasionaria f (plural pasionarias)

1. passionflower (any of very many North American vines of the family Passifloraceae)
   • 1956 [1944], Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes el memorioso”, in Ficciones, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, Artificios, page 117:

     Lo recuerdo […] con una oscura pasionaria en la mano, viéndola come nadie la ha visto, aunque la mirara desde el crepúsculo del día hasta el de la noche, toda una vida entera.

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pasionaria f

1. feminine singular of pasionario

• “pasionaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014