dictablanda
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish.
Noun
dictablanda (plural dictablandas)
Translations
soft-handed dictatorship
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Spanish
Etymology
A pun on dictadura (“dictatorship”), reanalyzing the -dura as being the adjective dura (“hard”) and replacing it with the adjective blanda (“soft”). Compare Portuguese ditabranda.
Pronunciation
Noun
dictablanda f (plural dictablandas)
- a soft-handed dictatorship
- 1994, Santiago Álvarez, Negrín, personalidad histórica, Ediciones de la Torre, page 54:
- […] , durante la dictablanda que sucedió a la dictatura de Primo de Rivera.
- , during the soft-handed dictatorship that followed Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship.
Further reading
- “dictablanda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28