Noun: Catalan
| Singular | Catalan |
| Plural | Catalans |
Sample Sentences
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Even if he draws back from a declaration, many Catalans – including Mossos and civil servants – may decide to not to obey orders from Madrid, and tens of thousands of people could take to the streets to protect key regional government institutions. [2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2018:]
Nouns inflected like Catalan
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Catalane, from French catalan, from Catalan català. First attested in 1480. See: Middle English Nouns '
Catalane', Middle English Nouns '
Catalane', French Nouns '
catalan', Catalan Nouns '
català'.