The word adefesio refers to those people who wear extravagant or ridiculous clothes, denoting, depending on the context, the ugliness of both the individual and the clothes. It is quite an old word. Its use, even from those time immemorial, has been pejorative. Despite this, the meaning of it has been questioned on countless occasions, emerging a debate between scholars of the religious and linguistic field, in order to determine, once and for all, what qualities the word grants. Diverse expressions in the Spanish language, used to indicate a nonsense or something of grotesque appearance, have been constituted, being popular the one that reads: “ made an eyesore”.
The first records of this word can be found in the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians. The Latin phrase "ad Ephesios" is what gives life to the series of expressions that indicate someone's ridicule. According to Catholic tradition, the inhabitants of the town of Ephesus were individuals who constantly bragged and bragged about their wealth and clothes, all resulting in an act of extreme ridicule. Others, however, claim that the expression is due to the fact that a citizen of the aforementioned city, despite having a brilliant position in the most important aspects, was ostracized; for that reason, it is said that "speaking eyesight" is a phrase used for thosepeople with whom you cannot have a fruitful dialogue. Héctor Zimmerman, an Argentine journalist, asserts that the word, at first, meant speaking “nonsense”, and then, at present, it goes on to call people and clothes ridiculous.
