enlobreguecía

Question

I'm reading Gaspar Blondin by Juan Montalvo and there are some words I don't know, which I've been looking up of course. However, I came across this word "enlobreguecía" which is obviously the imperfect mood. I just can't find the definition. I looked it up on Spanishdict's translator and I even looked it up in my super fancy dictionary (Oxford Spanish Dictionary, it has more words than any one person should ever know), but to no avail. Could anyone help me out?

Again, the word is enlobreguencía

Answer 1

enlobreguecer.

1. tr. Oscurecer, poner lóbrego. U. t. c. prnl.

MORF. conjug. c. agradecer.

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Muchas gracias Julian. Sabía que la palabra existe, pero no encontré. Gracias otra vez. - Vida_de_Scott, Jun 3, 2013

I had a feeling it was related to lobreguez, ,for darkness. - Sheily, Jun 3, 2013

Gracias. - EugenioCosta, Jun 3, 2013

Answer 2

Lúgubre, lóbrego

Una casa lúgubre - Think of it as a wet, dark and old house a really sad house.

Enlobreguencía means to make something looks lúgubre.

I think "dank" would be the English equivalent - 005faa61, Jun 3, 2013

or make gloomy/lugubrious - chileno, Jun 3, 2013

Darken... - chileno, Jun 3, 2013

Thx - Anormal, Jun 3, 2013

Answer 3

"LUBRICITY (n.)

late 15c., "lasciviousness," from Middle French lubricité or directly from Latin lubricitatem (nominative lubricitas), from lubricus "slippery" (see lubricant (adj.)). Sense of "oiliness, smoothness" is from 1540s; figurative sense of "shiftiness" is from 1610s."

Online Etymological Dictionary.

Answer 4

"La palabra lóbrego proviene del latín lúbricus y significa resbaladizo. Tiene lógica, pues, utilizar lubricantes para que los goznes de las puertas giren silenciosamente y para que las máquinas no sean ruidosas. En el terreno sexual lúbrico se refiere al momento en el que empiezan a fluir líquidos a causa de la excitación y con ellos se propicia una relación agradable. En el terreno de la semántica actual se hace sinónimo de 'tenebroso', 'tétrico', éscalofriante', 'lúgubre' y otros, pero originalmente vemos que su idea es bien clara y definida....""

[Perez etimologías.dechile.net]

Answer 5

"¿Qué secreto enlobreguecía a ese hombre?"

Interesante. Gracias.

Por supuesto, creo que esta historia va a ser interesante. - Vida_de_Scott, Jun 3, 2013

¿Vas a leerla también? - Vida_de_Scott, Jun 3, 2013

Answer 6

l?br?cus, a, um, adj. Gr. ?????, ??????, smooth; from root ????; cf. ????????, glittus, and ???????, slippery, slippery.

I Lit.: loculi, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 38: testudini injecta imbris in modum lubrico fastigio innoxia ad imum labebantur, Liv. 44, 9, 9: assiduo lubricus imbre lapis, Mart. 4, 18, 2.— Subst.: l?br?cum, i, n., a slippery place, Cels. 8, 3: in lubrico atque instabili fundamenta, Plin. 36, 14, 21, § 95.—With gen.: equi lubrico paludum lapsantes, on the slippery morass, Tac. A. 1, 65.—

B Transf.

1 Slippery, smooth, Mart. 9, 58, 3.—

2 That easily slips, glides, or moves away, slippery, slimy, lubricous: natura lubricos oculos fecit, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142: anguis, Verg. A. 5, 84: exta, Tib. 2, 5, 14: amnis, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 81: pisces, Plin. 9, 20, 37, § 73: conchylia,slimy, Hor. S. 2, 4, 30: corpus, Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7: lubrica prensantes effugit umbra manus, Ov. F. 5, 476: amnis,gliding, id. Am. 3, 6, 81.—

II Trop.

A Slippery, uncertain, hazardous, dangerous, critical (class.): via vitae praeceps et lubrica, Cic. Fl. 42, 105; cf. id. Rep. 1, 28: viae lubricae adulescentiae, id. Cael. 17, 41: aetas puerilis maxime lubrica atque incerta, id. Verr. 2, 5, 52, § 137: cupiditas dominandi praeceps et lubrica, id. Phil. 5, 18, 50: lubrica defensionis ratio, id. Planc. 2, 5: observatio, Quint. 1, 5, 5: locus, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 35: geometriam dico ... et si qua alia propter subtilitatem lubrica sunt, Sen. Ben. 3, 5, 1.—Poet., with inf.: vultus nimium lubricus aspici,seductive, Hor. C. 1, 19, 8. —Subst.: l?br?cum, i, n., a slippery or hazardous state, period, or season: in lubrico versari, Cic. Or. 28, 98: lubricum aetatis, Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 4: lubricum linguae, Dig. 48, 4, 7, § 3.—

B Gliding, fleeting: historia lubrica est hac atque illac fluit, ut homines, qui manibus invicem adprehensis gradum firmant, continent et continentur,passing from one subject to another, Quint. 9, 4, 129: annus,fleeting, Ov. A. A. 3, 364. —

C Slippery, deceitful: nequiquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes, Verg. A. 11, 716.—

D Prone, inclined, ready: flore capi juvenum lubrica mentem nympha, Sil. 5, 18: aetas ad vitium, Ambros. de Interp. Job et Dav. 1, 7, 21.—

E Unsteady, unsettled, easily going astray: si qua in parte lubricum adulescentiae nostrae declinat, Tac. A. 14, 56: lubricam principis aetatem retinere, id. ib. 13, 2.

Lewis & Short

Answer 7

Noche, lóbrega noche

Noche, lóbrega noche, eterno asilo

Del miserable que esquivando el sueño

Profundas penas en silencio gime....

Juan Nicasio Gallego

Answer 8

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lugubrious

Would that help?

Answer 9

I didn't think that that one word would cause so much conversation. Thanks for your help, guys!