Español
tótem.
(Del ingl. totem, y este del algonquino nin-totem).
1. m. Objeto de la naturaleza, generalmente un animal, que en la mitología de algunas sociedades se toma como emblema protector de la tribu o del individuo, y a veces como ascendiente o progenitor.
2. m. Emblema tallado o pintado, que representa el tótem.
Fuente: Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
English
which a person or place belongs.] 1. A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan; also, the object or animal itself, considered as an symbol of the family. [1913 Webster] And they painted on the grave posts
Of the graves, yet unforgotten,
Each his own ancestral totem
Each the symbol of his household;
Figures of the bear and reindeer,
Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. --Longfellow.
[1913 Webster]
The totem, the clan deity, the beast or bird who in
some supernatural way attends to the clan and
watches over it. --Bagehot.
[1913 Webster]
2. Anything which serves as a venerated or mystic symbol or
emblem.
[PJC]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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