Catalan

[ kat-l-an, -uh n, kat-l-an ]

/ ˈkæt lˌæn, -ən, ˌkæt lˈæn /

pertaining to Catalonia, its inhabitants, or their language.

a native or inhabitant of Catalonia.

a Romance language closely related to Provençal, spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, southern France, and western Sardinia.

Origin of Catalan

1375–1425; late Middle English < Spanish

The Catalan separatist movement has been growing in recent years, as demonstrated each September with a march on Barcelona.

Europe’s Secession Panic |Barbie Latza Nadeau |September 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her father was a Viscount, so Taylor married into the Catalan aristocracy.

Whit Stillman on the 20th Anniversary of ‘Barcelona’, His New Amazon Series, and the Myth of the Ugly Expat |Michael Weiss |August 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The Daily Pic: At the Met, the Catalan master has a conceptual edge.

Miro's Old Art is Still Contemporary |Blake Gopnik |August 1, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Pere Navarro, head of the Catalan socialist party, said: "We need a new head of state."

Engulfed by Scandal, Could The Spanish Royal Family Fall? |Tom Sykes |April 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Montalbán endowed his Catalan gumshoe with an equally impressive set of quirks that are aired and explored in each book.

The Foodie Detective: The Pepe Carvalho Novels by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |Malcolm Forbes |October 3, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Apart from the four Catalan provinces, no province has witnessed such a development of local industries as Guipzcoa.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 |Various
And when the babies are all snugly asleep in their beds, the Pre Catalan often has other visitors.

In Vanity Fair |Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
Trompe, tromp, n. the apparatus by which the blast is produced in the Catalan forge.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) |Various
Catalan submission to the latter did not endure through the ninth century.

A History of Spain |Charles E. Chapman
Something like a blockade, however, had been established, for the Catalan peasants guarded vigilantly every approach to the town.

The Bravest of the Brave |G. A. Henty

Catalan

/ (ˈkætəˌlæn, -lən) /

a language of Catalonia, quite closely related to Spanish and Provençal, belonging to the Romance group of the Indo-European family

a native or inhabitant of Catalonia

denoting, relating to, or characteristic of Catalonia, its inhabitants, or their language