Fwd: arena: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day

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Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:00 AM
Subject: arena: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day
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	Spanish Word of the Day Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help arena, noun sand; arena La arena is a word with pleasant associations, relating as it does to beaches and the sea. What could be better than lying on a Caribbean beach? mar azul, arrecifes de coral, playas de arena blanca, bosques de cocoteros blue sea, coral reefs, beaches of white sand, groves of coconut trees Spanish arena is in origin the same word as English arena. Both come from the Latin (h)ar?na, referring to the sand-strewn part of an amphitheatre, where for example gladiators fought. Spanish also has the meaning of sporting arena. From that comes the figurative meaning, as in: la arena política the political arena Content By © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2006. All rights reserved. Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/es/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Unsubscribe To subscribe to Spanish Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday-es@lists.lexico.com ©2014 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to The Spanish Word of the Day can be turned on and off via the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/help/faq/wordoftheday/   Tell a friend about The Spanish Word of the Day!

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