Cerdanya

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan Cerdanya.

Proper noun

Cerdanya

A historical region in Catalonia

Translations

historical region

Catalan: Cerdanya (ca) f
French: Cerdagne (fr) f
Italian: Cerdagna f
Occitan: Cerdanha f
Portuguese: Cerdanha f
Spanish: Cerdaña f

Further reading

Cerdanya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

decanary, ear candy

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin Ceretania, referring to the local pre-Roman tribe of the Ceretani, probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, perhaps Iberian or Basque (compare harri (“hard, stone, rock”)).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sərˈda.ɲə]

IPA^(key): (Valencian) [seɾˈða.ɲa]

Proper noun

Cerdanya

Cerdanya (a historical region of Catalonia currently divided between the provinces of Lleida and Girona in Spain and the Pyrénées-Orientales department in France)

Meronyms

Related terms

References

Merino, A., Canal, J. d. l. (1819). De la santa iglesia de Gerona. Spain: (n.p.), p. 6

Further reading

“Cerdanya” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cerdanya on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

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