vorágine
See also: voragine
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vorāgine, singular ablative of vorāgo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈɾaxine/ [boˈɾa.xi.ne]
- Rhymes: -axine
- Syllabification: vo‧rá‧gi‧ne
Noun
vorágine f (plural vorágines)
- whirlpool, maelstrom
- Synonym: remolino
- extremely intense or passionate emotions or feelings; the effect, manifestation or perception of them
- disorder, mess
- Synonyms: desorden, descontrol
- angry crowd
- Synonym: turba
Further reading
- “vorágine”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014