Rocinante a standalone word as well as a suffix. One meaning is "before" or "previously". Another is "in front of". As a suffix, "-ante" in Spanish is adverbial; "rocinante" refers to functioning as, or being, a "rocín". "Rocinante", then, follows Cervantes' pattern using ambiguous, multivalent words, which is common throughout the novel. Rocinante's name, then, signifies his change in status from the "old nag" of before to the "foremost" steed. As Cervantes describes Don Quixote's choice of name: "nombre a su parecer alto, sonoro y significativo de lo que había sido cuando fue rocín, antes de lo que ahora era, que
Santa Teresa (fictional city) Santa Teresa (fictional city) Santa Teresa has been used by several authors as the name of an invented city. Santa Teresa was created by Ross Macdonald as a fictionalised version of Santa Barbara, California in his mystery "The Moving Target" (1949). He used it again in several others of his works, including "The Galton Case" (1959), "The Instant Enemy" (1968), and "The Underground Man" (1971). In the 1980s, the writer Sue Grafton began using a fictional Santa Teresa as the setting for her novels featuring her lead character Kinsey Millhone, a fictional female private investigator. Millhone is the protagonist of