Hosta 'Paradigm' - Right Rosa 'Buttercup' and Rosa 'Bathsheba'

 

One of the best dictionaries in the world is the one from the Real Academia Española. My grandfather Don Tirso de Irureta Goyena was the only member of this lofty organization from the Philippines. He fought tirelessly to prevent English from taking over Spanish there. He failed.

My grandmother, who really was the one who educated me and brought me up as my mother was a busy teacher of mathematics, physics and chemistry, taught me well about this language which is one of the two that I speak and write.

What is notable of the RAE (the abbreviation for Real Academia Española) dictionary is that all I have to do with Google is put the word with a comma and then RAE. That instantly gives me the many variations of the definition. Best of all it shows the origin of the word.

Today it was Amarillo (yellow), RAE. This is what I found:

amarillo, lla.

(Del b. lat. amarĕllus, de amārus, amargo).

It seems then the the color yellow in Spanish is from the Latin for bitter, amargo in Spanish.

The above is but an excuse to put here today’s plant scan from my garden.