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Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...
Sebastian Stoskopff: Glasses in a Basket (1644; Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg).. Drinkware, beverageware (in other words, cups, jugs and ewers) is a general term for a vessel intended to contain beverages or liquid foods for drinking or consumption.
A botijo, also called búcaro in Spanish, càntir in Catalan, [1] [2] [3] canabarro in Galician, [4] txongil in Basque, and boteja in Hispanic America, is a traditional porous clay container designed to contain water. [5] [6] The botijo, or water jar, is a typical element of culture in many parts of Spain and may vary in shape and color.
The word "ciborium" was also used in classical Latin to describe such cups, [2] although the only example to have survived is in one of Horace's odes (2.7.21–22). [ 3 ] In medieval Latin, and in English, "Ciborium" more commonly refers to a covered container used in Roman Catholic , Anglican , Lutheran and related churches to store the ...
Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
Rococo cup with saucer, circa 1753, soft-paste porcelain with overglaze enamelling, Vincennes porcelain. A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about 100–250 millilitres (3–8 US fl oz).
A chalice (from Latin calix 'cup', taken from the Ancient Greek κύλιξ 'cup') is a drinking cup raised on a stem with a foot or base. Although it is a technical archaeological term, in modern parlance the word is now used almost exclusively for the cups used in Christian liturgy as part of a service of the Eucharist, such as a Catholic mass ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.