This week’s theme
Characters from Don Quixote who became words

This week’s words
quixote
sancho
dulcinea
lothario
rosinante


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Next week's theme
Words coined after animals

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PRONUNCIATION:

(roz-uh-NAN-tee)

MEANING:

noun: An old, worn-out horse.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Rocinante, the name of Don Quixote’s horse. Don Quixote took four days to think of a lofty name for his horse, from Spanish rocín (an old horse: nag or hack) + ante (before, in front of). Earliest documented use: 1641.

USAGE:

“But there was still a second nag, a Rosinante nodding with shut eyelids and drooping knees over the manger, and the saddle hung ready on its pin.”
R. Campbell Thompson; A Pilgrim’s Scrip; John Lane; 1915.

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