Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Sunday June 29, 2008
látigo, noun:
whip
In its basic meaning un látigo is a whip.
Me di cuenta de que estaba a punto de azotarnos con el látigo.
I realised he was about to thrash us with the whip.
If you add the suffix -azo to látigo you get the word latigazo (without an accent), which means a blow from a whip, a lash:
Recibió cien latigazos.
He got a hundred lashes.
More cheerfully, in Spain a latigazo is an informal word for a drink, or a shot of drink.
un latigazo de grappa
a shot of grappa
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