catalanada

Catalan

FWOTD – 31 January 2018

Etymology

català (Catalan) + -ada

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /kə.tə.ləˈna.də/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ka.ta.laˈna.da/

Noun

catalanada f (plural catalanades)

  1. (colloquial) Catalanism (word or phrase typically used in Catalan-speaking areas)
    • 1980 (published in 2014), Joaquim Carbó, letter in Epistolari Jordi Arbonès & Joaquim Carbó, p. 53:
      De tant en tant deia alguna catalanada, la qual cosa feia entendre que sabia on era.
      Every once in a while I would say some Catalanism, which meant that I knew where I was.

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