catalanidad

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Spanish

Etymology

From catalán (Catalan) +‎ -idad (-ness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /katalaniˈdad/
  • Rhymes: -ad
  • Syllabification: ca‧ta‧la‧ni‧dad

Noun

catalanidad f (plural catalanidades)

  1. Catalanness (identification with Catalan values and customs)
    • 2015 September 13, “Catalanes en España”, in El País:
      Y fue ayer, en abril de 1976, cuando Jordi Pujol, con ocasión de su primer viaje a Madrid como líder de Convergència Democràtica, dejó en un discurso pronunciado en el Ateneo una nueva y diferente versión de aquella doble pertenencia: “Queremos, ante todo, ser catalanes, y queremos de parte entera, desde nuestra catalanidad, ser españoles”.
      And it seems it was yesterday, in April 1976, when Jordi Pujol, on the occasion of his first travel to Madrid as the leader of Convergència Democràtica, gave, during a speech held in the athenaeum, a new and different version of that double membership: “Before anything else, we want to be Catalan, and by this Catalanness of ours, to be fully Spanish”.

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