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Catalan, a. and n.|ˈkætəlæn|
A. adj. Of or belonging to Catalonia, the most northeasterly province of Spain, once an independent principality. Catalan forge, a blast-furnace for reducing iron ores, extensively used in Catalonia and the neighbouring districts: so Catalan furnace, Catalan hearth, etc.
B. n.
1. A native of Catalonia; the language of Catalonia, a dialect of Provençal or Langue d'Oc, with affinities towards Spanish.
2. The language of Catalonia.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cclvi. (1482) 334 Pope Calyxte the iij was a Catalane. 1792A. Young Travels 25 Region of the Pyrenees..the language of the country is a mixture of Catalan, Provençal, and French. 1807Southey Lett. fr. England III. lxxiii. 335 Scotch..differs far more from English than Portugueze from Castilian, nearly as much as the Catalan. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 709 The Catalan forge can be profitably employed only where wood is exceedingly cheap and abundant. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 97 The Catalans had risen in rebellion. 1861Fairbairn Iron 42 The disposition of the Catalan hearth during the process of reduction. 1867Bloxam Chem. 321 In the Pyrenees, where the Catalan process is employed. a1877Knight Dict. Mech., Catalan-furnace, a blast-furnace for reducing iron ores, extensively used in the North of Spain. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Catalan forge, a forge with a tuyere for reducing iron ore, with charcoal, to a loup of wrought iron; a bloomary. 1906Belloc Hills & Sea 261 Hundreds of men had spoken to me in Catalan. 1933H. J. Chaytor Hist. Aragon iv. 62 Catalan presents a different problem; the question whether it belongs to the Hispanic or to the Gallo-Roman branches of the Romance languages is even yet in dispute. 1960W. D. Elcock Romance Lang. v. 435 The question whether Catalan should be considered as a language has at times given rise to debate, much of it ill-formed and coloured by political partisanship... During the later medieval period it came to rank as one of the ‘great languages’ of western Europe. |