Cerdanya

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan Cerdanya.

Proper noun

Cerdanya

  1. A historic region of Catalonia.

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cerdanya

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

Meronyms

References

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

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