{"id":23333,"date":"2024-03-27T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23333"},"modified":"2024-03-27T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:56:10","slug":"madrugadores-early-risers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23333","title":{"rendered":"Madrugadores (Early Risers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Are you a <strong>madrugador<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p> <a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/agueda1959\/33237097571\/in\/photolist-SD3P9p-UC5mwG-wo1mLx-2jH8uNu-2mdjdQw-ctZK3h-wYrNeG-2jRvxmD-2bC8UTd-2a2Si3r-2mf5JwW-2neRw6A-2nFVr5c-fKS7NH-MgP7B-2obq13X-se5Nax-21d1sUN-2a4at7V-HgG7PR-aTTRtg-PvWW8h-2k2YPjC-2ooKh1M-29xftXr-2obkqkB-5FzJAm-8pHfjd-2ima43X-yWvDTa-5FzJJC-2obmfA7-2ociVe4-2ociVfG-6CeoVE-nypLet-K72bbJ-f1fCkh-3RyrwP-2obqyoY-2jkVyTt-4NZKdJ-Npnrhs-aaAExd-spPSz6-nLXHnt-2X3F2S-2iDtkHY-m1VMZT-5j7QCp\" title=\"Madrugador...\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/776\/33237097571_26e5fcb09c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" alt=\"Madrugador...\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> I used to be, but now I&#8217;m more of a <strong>dormil\u00f3n<\/strong> and a <strong>trasnochador<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madrugador<\/strong> [ma.\u00f0\u031e\u027eu.\u0263\u031ea\u02c8\u00f0\u031eo\u027e] is a Spanish (and Portuguese) word that means an early riser, early bird or morning person, and as an adjective it means rising or waking early. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/madrugador#Spanish\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Madrugador<\/strong> comes from <strong>madrugar<\/strong> (to get up early), from Vulgar Latin <em>*m\u0101t\u016bric\u0101re<\/em> (to wake up early), from Latin <em>mat\u016bro<\/em> (to ripen, mature, hasten, rush), from <em>m\u0101t\u016brus<\/em> (mature, ripe, early, soon), from Proto-Italic <em>*m\u0101tus<\/em> (ripeness) from the PIE <em>*meh\u2082-<\/em> (to ripen, to mature) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Latin\/maturicare\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you can pack a lot of meaning into one word in Spanish, for example, <strong>madrugaba<\/strong> (I\/he\/she\/it used to get up early) and <strong>madrugadores madrugaban<\/strong> (early risers used to rise early).<\/p>\n<p>Related words include <strong>madrugada<\/strong> (dawn, early hours of the morning, before dawn) and <strong>madrug\u00f3n<\/strong> (early riser, early bird, early start). <\/p>\n<p>Words with similar meanings include <strong>tempranero<\/strong> (early, early-rising, early riser) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tempranero\">source<\/a>] and <strong>ma\u00f1anero<\/strong> (early rising, morning, early riser) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ma%C3%B1anero#Spanish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>How would you say <strong>early riser<\/strong> in other languages?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there&#8217;s a novel by Jasper Fforde called <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Early-Riser-standalone-Number-bestselling\/dp\/1444763601\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.gbOjFkEv5hV7wkpYaQ-8sr8PlM028pAR5e4r5ri7oGDwQVnh4TLP3nDyNs8adzcgMdp0vKtM-VwxdDyQk013tOU4uZQgfTh1spAXiuxPWvLcC5OkHEOp-iwEJrTsqvluI3PBzPytLf_1mwpzMBXnx0SB59YK1LOv-XxXyf51Qaw.6MxfWv4GWo5PylbReiTEjsqJtJwFPf9K_4cesShDlhI&amp;qid=1711561664&amp;sr=8-1&#038;_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=omniglot-21&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;linkId=144b778ab43e29ae8355af183c4f0d5c&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Riser<\/a><\/em> that I would recommend.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a late riser, like me, then you&#8217;re a  <strong>dormil\u00f3n<\/strong>, which should not be confused with <strong>dormilona<\/strong> (reclining chair, nightgown), and if you stay up late, you could be described as a <strong>trasnochador<\/strong> (night owl, night bird) or a <strong>noct\u00e1mbulo<\/strong> (active at night, sleepwalker, night owl) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tiddlywinks\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Are there interesting equivalents of <strong>late riser<\/strong> or <strong>night owl<\/strong> in other languages?<\/p>\n<p>The English words <strong>mature<\/strong> and <strong>maturate<\/strong> (to ripen, bring to ripeness or maturity) come from the same Latin roots [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/maturate#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Apparently <strong>a quien madruga, Dios le ayuda<\/strong> (&#8220;God helps those who rise early&#8221;) or in other words <strong>the early bird gets the worm<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/a_quien_madruga,_Dios_le_ayuda#Spanish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>How would you say that in other languages?<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you could say <strong>no por mucho madrugar, amanece m\u00e1s temprano<\/strong> (&#8220;getting up earlier won&#8217;t make the sun rise sooner&#8221;) or in other words <strong>things will happen at their own time, you can&#8217;t rush art<\/strong>  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/a_quien_madruga,_Dios_le_ayuda#Spanish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited2-468x60.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a madrugador? I used to be, but now I&#8217;m more of a dormil\u00f3n and a trasnochador. Madrugador [ma.\u00f0\u031e\u027eu.\u0263\u031ea\u02c8\u00f0\u031eo\u027e] is a Spanish (and Portuguese) word that means an early riser, early bird or morning person, and as an adjective it means rising or waking early. [source]. Madrugador comes from madrugar (to get up early), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,15,41,45,46,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-portuguese","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23333"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23340,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions\/23340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}