Pastilla

[DailyWord]

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for July 14, 2008

pastilla - feminine noun (la) - pill, tablet, bar. Look up pastilla in the dictionary

Tómate tus pastillas para que no te vuelvas a enfermar.
Take your pills so you won't get sick again.

[poli]

Some countries (Argentina por ejemplo) call them comprimidos.

[poli]

For non-native English speakers. it might be good to know that pill
can mean a person who is a real bore. Maybe it's equivalent of
mosca cojonera although that sounds a little bit vulgar.
I think a person who is pill = Una person que es una postema.

[Alfonso]

Originally Posted by poli

Una person que es una postema.

¿Qué diablos es una postema?

[poli]

Aqui se usa mucho. Por ejemplo:
"Vamos al cine con tal de que termines de asemblar el mueble."
¡no seas una postema!

[Alfonso]

Originally Posted by poli

Aqui se usa mucho. Por ejemplo:
"Vamos al cine con tal de que termines de asemblar el mueble."
¡no seas una postema!

¡Caramba, Poli! La primera vez que lo oigo. Suena bien. ¿Quiénes dicen postema? ¿Asemblar o ensamblar?

[poli]

Originally Posted by Alfonso

¡Caramba, Poli! La primera vez que lo oigo. Suena bien. ¿Quiénes dicen postema? ¿Asemblar o ensamblar?

Ciertamente la palabra es ensamblar. Aprendí una palabra tambien.
Postema suena muy cómico porque en realidad una postema es un abseso

[Alfonso]

Originally Posted by poli

Ciertamente la palabra es ensamblar. Aprendí una palabra tambien.
Postema suena muy cómico porque en realidad una postema es un abseso

¿Quieres decir un obeso?

[Rusty]

Poli meant absceso and apostema.
persona pesada = postema (aféresis de apostema)

[CrOtALiTo]

Mexico In the pills're called chochitos.!


A postema is a word very fun.

Example: Victor lest go to the street, please you don't be a postema.

Really in. it's the first time, I hear in my life that word.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Mexico In the pills're called chochitos.!
In Mexico pills are called chochitos!

A postema is a word very fun.
Postema is a very fun word.
Did you mean funny word?
fun=divertido funny=gracioso

Example: Victor, lets go to the street. Please you don't be a postema.

Really in. it's the first time, I hear in my life that word.
In reality, it's the first time in my life I've heard that word.

Corrections above.

[Elaina]

Isn't

abscess = postemilla (usually in your mouth)

Is

postema the same as postemilla (maybe in a different locale?)?

Elaina

[poli]

Originally Posted by Elaina

Isn't

abscess = postemilla (usually in your mouth)

Is

postema the same as postemilla (maybe in a different locale?)?

Elaina

Rusty said that the word postema is a shortened version of the word
apostema which is a proper word for abscess in Spanish. Postemilla
is clearly a diminutive word (little abscess).
In some Latin-American countries calling someone a postema is the
equivalent of calling someone "a pain in the neck/ass" in English.