Pyrenean

Pyrenean

English

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Etymology

From Latin Pȳrēnaeus +‎ -an.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌpɪɹəˈniːən/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adjective

Pyrenean (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a mountain range separating France and Spain.
    • 1845, Selina Bunbury, Evenings in the Pyrenées:
      Pierre held his berret [sic] in his hand, and the boldness of the Pyrenean hunter was strangely overcome in the absence of all apparent danger: he really knew not what he did or what he said.
    • 1910, Hugh Chisholm (contributor), The Encyclopædia Britannica: Chatelet-Constantine, page 467:
      During the Hundred Days he was in command of an army defending the Pyrenean frontier.

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Noun

Pyrenean (plural Pyreneans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the Pyrenees.

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References

  1. ^ Pyrenean, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.