Modus edendi: la expresión fraseológica de las maneras de comer en lenguas romances
Modus edendi: la expresión fraseológica de las maneras de comer en lenguas romances

Summary/Abstract: Due to its central position in our lives, the act of eating, besides being a mere physiological necessity governed by instinct, has become a marker of social interaction, a perfect vehicle for a collective ritual, a reflection of a whole culture. All food habits explain the existence of a multitude of locutions, idiomatic expressions and proverbs that refer to or describe the act of eating in all its forms of manifestation. It is not our intention to investigate all the figurative meanings of the verba edendi, nor do we pretend to analyze the paremiological inventory of the Romance languages on the act of eating; our paper aims to classify the constructions placed around such verbs in some relevant categories and verify if the common origin of the target languages is also reflected in the way of describing the act of eating.

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