Catalanophobia

English

Alternative forms

• catalanophobia

Etymology

Catalano- +‎ -phobia

Noun

Catalanophobia (uncountable)

1. (rare) Dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.
   • 1979, European studies review, volume 9, Macmillan, page 15:

     Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops.

   • 1990, Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr, Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 52:

     Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the tancament de caixes.

   • 2000, Joseph Harrison, “Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle,”, in Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism, Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

     Yet in a mood of catalanophobia, stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading.

Synonyms

• anti-Catalanism

Translations

Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language

• Catalan: catalanofòbia (ca), anticatalanisme (ca)
• French: catalanophobie (fr), anticatalanisme (fr)
• Spanish: catalanofobia (es), anticatalanismo

See also

• Catalanophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia