Catalan Definition

kătl-ăn, -ən, kătl-ăn
adjective
Of Catalonia or its people, language, or culture.
Webster's New World
noun
A native or inhabitant of Catalonia.
American Heritage
A person born or living in Catalonia.
Webster's New World
The Romance language spoken mainly in Catalonia, closely related to Provençal: it is spoken also in Valencia, Andorra, the Balearic Islands, W Sardinia, and parts of SW France.
Webster's New World
pronoun

The language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain. Various dialects are also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region where the language is officially named valencià, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France and the Sardinian city of Alghero. ISO 639-3 recognizes Valencian as an alternate name for this language.

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Other Word Forms of Catalan

Noun

Singular:
Catalan
Plural:
catalans

Origin of Catalan

  • Derived from 'Catalunya (“Catalonia”), a corruption of Latin Gathia launia "land of the Goths", or Goth-Alania "land of Goths and Alans," an Iranian tribe.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English Catalane possibly from Catalan catalana from Catalunya , Catalonia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Possibly from an indigenous name of Celtic origin and probably meaning "chiefs of battle";*

    From Wiktionary

Catalan Sentence Examples

  • None of these maps was graduated, which is all the Mediterranean they embody materials available even in the days before Ptolemy, while the correct delineation of the west seems to be of a later date, and may have been due to Catalan seamen.

  • Phison +barya L op felice Other Catalans are, Jahuda Cresques, a Jew of Barcelona, the supposed author of the famous Catalan map of the world (1375), Guglielmo Solerio (1384), Mecia de Viladestes (1413-1433) Gabriel de Valleseche (1439-1447) and Pietro Roselli, a pupil of Beccario of Genoa (1462).

  • Very different in character is the Catalan map of 1375, for its author, discarding Ptolemy, shows India as a peninsula.

  • It has been translated into Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Welsh, Polish, Gaelic, Russian, Bohemian, Dutch, Catalan, Chinese, modern Greek and phonetic writing.

  • The history and literature of Catalonia have been closely studied, and in many cases the results of research are published in the Catalan language.

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Words Starting With

CCACAT

Words Ending With

NANLAN

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Words Starting With C and Ending With N

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