zozobra
See also: zozobrá
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θoˈθobɾa/ [θoˈθo.β̞ɾa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /soˈsobɾa/ [soˈso.β̞ɾa]
- Rhymes: -obɾa
- Syllabification: zo‧zo‧bra
Etymology 1
Deverbal from zozobrar, or borrowed from Old Catalan sotsobre, from sots + sobre; cf. modern Catalan sotsobrar (“to capsize”).
Noun
zozobra f (plural zozobras)
- capsizing
- roll of the dice, throw of the dice
- anxiety; worry
- Synonyms: ansiedad, preocupación
- 2020 June 28, Rosa Montero, “Más brutos y no nacemos”, in El País, Madrid, →ISSN:
- En la zozobra de la plaga, la gente más débil no soporta la evidencia de nuestra absoluta fragilidad: una birria de virus que ni siquiera alcanzamos a ver es capaz de tumbarnos.
- In the anxiety of the plague, the weakest people cannot bear the proof of our complete fragility: a virus that we cannot even see is capable of taking us down.
- 2023 May 16, Arnaldo Otegi, quotee, “Los siete exetarras de las listas de Bildu con delitos de sangre renuncian a ser concejales”, in El País:
- Otegi reafirma la apuesta “por vías exclusivamente pacíficas y democráticas” y dice: “Debemos avanzar hacia el futuro y no generar zozobra”
- Otegi reaffirms the commitment "only through peaceful and democratic ways" and says: "We must move towards the future and not generate anxiety'
Verb
zozobra
- inflection of zozobrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “zozobra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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