bizantino

adj.

1 Byzantine, intricate.

2 Byzantine, rich in detail, elaborate.

3 Byzantine.

4 Byzantine, from Byzantium.

5 Byzantine, pertaining to Byzantium.

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bizantino

► adjetivo

1 Byzantine

2 figurado (discusión) idle

3 figurado (decadente) decadent

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bizantino, -a

1. ADJ

1) ( Hist) Byzantine

2) (=baldío) idle, pointless; (=irreal) over-subtle, unreal

discusión bizantina — pointless argument

3) (fig) (=decadente) decadent

2.

SM / F Byzantine

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-na adjetivo

a) (Hist) Byzantine

b) (insoluble)

una discusión bizantina — a protracted and pointless argument

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= Byzantine, byzantine.

Ex. This Symposium acted as a brains trust on questions and problems of lexicography, as well as glossaries on Byzantine administrative terminology and the special language of hagiographic texts.

Ex. Those elderly bureaucrats and their byzantine procedures are cherished by the customers, who tend to be uninterested in the arcane details of 'digital,' and so are relentlessly passé themselves.

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* discusión bizantina = pointless discussion, pointless argument.

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-na adjetivo

a) (Hist) Byzantine

b) (insoluble)

una discusión bizantina — a protracted and pointless argument

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= Byzantine, byzantine.

Ex: This Symposium acted as a brains trust on questions and problems of lexicography, as well as glossaries on Byzantine administrative terminology and the special language of hagiographic texts.

Ex: Those elderly bureaucrats and their byzantine procedures are cherished by the customers, who tend to be uninterested in the arcane details of 'digital,' and so are relentlessly passé themselves.

* discusión bizantina = pointless discussion, pointless argument.

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bizantino -na

adjective

1 (Hist) Byzantine

2

(insoluble): nos metimos en una discusión bizantina we got involved in a protracted and pointless argument o a protracted and unresolvable argument

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bizantino

◊ -na adjetivo (Hist) Byzantine

bizantino,-a adjetivo
1 (complicado e irrelevante) hair-splitting: no perdamos el tiempo en cuestiones bizantinas, let's not waste time splitting hairs
2 (de Bizancio) Byzantine

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bizantina

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bizantino, -a

♦ adj

1. Hist Byzantine

2. [discusión, razonamiento] hair-splitting

♦ nm,f

Byzantine

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bizantino

adj fig

pointless