Call Me by Your Name (2017 Film)

Call Me by Your Name (2017 Film) Glossary

bankrupt (adjective or noun)

A person or organization unable to pay their outstanding debts

blossom (verb)

To mature and grow as a person in a healthy way.

apricot (noun)

a juicy, soft fruit, resembling a small peach, of an orange-yellow color.

Liszt (proper noun)

a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger and organist of the Romantic era.

gay (adjective)

homosexual.

pomegranate (noun)

An orange-sized fruit with a tough reddish outer skin and sweet red gelatinous flesh containing many seeds.

espresso (noun)

strong black coffee made by forcing steam through ground coffee beans, popular in Italy.

Bach (proper noun)

German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music

alchemy (noun)

a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.

drivel (noun)

nonsense.

Heidegger (proper noun)

A German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics.

The Psychedelic Furs (proper noun)

An English New Wave band from the 1980s.

dredge (verb)

clean out the bed of an area of water by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish with a dredge.

truce (noun)

an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting or arguing for a certain time.

Heraclitus (proper noun)

A Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE, Heraclitus criticized his predecessors and contemporaries for their failure to see the unity in experience.

Battle of Piave (proper noun)

A decisive victory for the Italian Army against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I.

Buñuel (proper noun)

Luis Buñuel, A Spanish filmmaker associated with the Surrealist movement.

hard (adjective)

referring to an erect penis.

Antonia Pozzi (proper noun)

An Italian poet.

latkes (noun)

Traditional Jewish dish, potato pancake.