A llaga is a sore or wound. I have seen it used in literature to mean a sore that one would have with leprosy.
I have heard it used idiomatically in the phrase, “poner el dedo en la llaga” twice in the last week. It means “to rub salt in the wound,” or “to hit the sore spot.”
Fragancia is what it looks like, fragrance. Yes, it is supposed to be missing an “r.”
Alberca and piscina both mean a swimming pool, an artificial body of water.
Another word I heard the other day is charco. This is also a pool, but a naturally occurring one.
Paracaidismo is the sport of sky-diving. You use a paracaÃdas, or parachute.
Etymologically paracaÃdas and parachute are exactly the same word. The para- is “to protect against” and -caÃdas or -chute mean the same thing, “a fall.”
Nadar is the verb to swim.
Nadador is the noun for the person who does the swimming, the swimmer.
Natación is the noun for the sport of swimming.
And, as we have seen before, clavado is the noun for the sport of diving into a pool.
I was thinking of sports words to use here for a few days and already knew that the word deportes meant sports.
What I did not think about is that the word deporte is also a conjugated form of the verb deportar, to deport or to expel.
As a family we went bowling today. The game is called boliche here in Mexico. In other places it is known as bolo. This is bowling of the 10 pin variety.
