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Georgia

Aug 23, 2010, 7:49 AM

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I know this word means that whoever is "calcinado" is dead as a doornail. But my Castillian Spanish background sometimes just doesn't carry over well into Mexican Spanish which is its own thing. What is a good and accurate translation from MExican Spanish into English of the word "calcinado?"

After I learned the meaning of "luego, luego" I realized I had a whole lot of new language learning to do in spite of the fact that I've spoken Spanish all my life!

cbviajero

Aug 23, 2010, 8:23 AM

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Re: [Georgia] Calcinado

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i believe it means burned to a crisp.

Georgia

Aug 23, 2010, 8:25 AM

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Re: [cbviajero] Calcinado

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Sounds right. Thanks.

Reefhound

Aug 23, 2010, 11:28 AM

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Is it generally refer to someone actually dead or someone marked for death? Or both?

chris cooper

Aug 23, 2010, 3:47 PM

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charred

jerezano

Sep 9, 2010, 11:53 AM

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Re: [chris cooper] Calcinado

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Hola a todos:

calcinado--What are the English words? Incinerated? Cremated? Turned to ashes as I want to be cremated rather than buried.

So to me it has the meaning cremated but not in a recognized crematorium. As burned to ashes in a car crash. As burned to ashes by a narco. As burned to ashes by an explosion.

Somebody has suggested charred. To me charred is too mild a term. Somebody else has suggested burned to a crisp. That to me is also too mild a term.

I just consulted the Royal Academia Espanola dictionary which defines calcinar (the verb from which calcinado is derived) as follows:

1. Reducir a cal viva los minerales calcáreos, privándolos del ácido carbónico por el fuego.
]2. Abrasar por completo, especialmente por el fuego. U. t. c. prnl.
3.] Quím. Someter al calor cuerpos de cualquier clase para eliminar las sustancias volátiles.

All three definitions more or less confirm what I have just said. Burned to ashes.

Hasta luego, jerezano.