Catalonia

/ˌkætəˈləʊniə/

autonomous community
autonomous community


Catalan

From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Spanish catalán, from Catalan Catalunya.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Catalan.

The Romance language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, 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.

కాటలాన్ భాషా

kāṭalān bhāṣā


Barcelona

/ˌbɑːsəˈləʊnə/

/ˌbɑɹsəˈloʊnə/

/ˌbɑɹsɪˈloʊnə/

The capital city of the state of Anzoátegui, Venezuela.


peseta

From Spanish peseta, from peso (“coin or weight”).

The Catalan peseta, a former currency of Catalonia.


tió de Nadal

/tɪˌəʊ dɛ nəˈdɒl/

Borrowed from Catalan tió de Nadal, from tió (“log”) and Nadal (“Christmas”).

Another ritual to do with trees is the tió de Nadal, the Yule log that becomes fertile and “craps” sweets and presents;

1991, Catalònia Culture, Centre Unesco de Catalunya, page 13:

A traditional Catalan Christmas character made by decorating a short log. It is “fed” with gifts each day from December 8th until Christmas, at which time it is sung to and beaten with sticks until it “poops”.

tronca de Nadal

a wooden Christmas character that is beaten until it poops gifts


correfoc

Borrowed from Catalan correfoc (literally “run [through] fire”).

bor

The correfoc (‘fire run’) is a frenzy of pyromania. Groups of horned devils dance through the streets, brandishing tridents that spout fireworks and generally flouting every safety rule in the book.

2013, Time Out Barcelona, 15th edition, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN:

Any of several forms of parade-like celebrations in Catalonia involving pyrotechnics in the middle of a crowd.


Barcelonian

From Barcelona or otherwise related to the city of Barcelona.


Tarragonan

en-adj

Tarragonan (comparative more Tarragonan, superlative most Tarragonan)

more Tarragonan (comparative)
most Tarragonan (superlative)


Mossos d'Esquadra

/ˌmɒsəʊz dɪˈskwɑːdɹə/

/ˌməʊsəʊz dɪˈskwɑːdɹə/

Unadapted borrowing from Catalan Mossos d'Esquadra (literally “team officers”).

unadapted borrowing

Coordinate term: Ertzaintza

Although Puigdemont has resisted internal political pressure to now formally declare Catalan independence, he has refused to rule out the move, which would escalate tensions further and could pit the regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, against the thousands of Spanish Guardia Civil and national police officers deployed in Catalonia.

2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in the Guardian: