dictablanda
English
Etymology
Spanish
FWOTD – 25 April 2014
Etymology
A pun on dictadura (“dictatorship”), reanalyzing the -dura as being the adjective dura (“hard”) and replacing it with the adjective blanda (“soft”). Compare Portuguese ditabranda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diɡtaˈblanda/, [d̪iɣt̪aˈβlãn̪d̪a]
Noun
dictablanda f (plural dictablandas)
- a soft-handed dictatorship
- 1994, Santiago Álvarez, Negrín, personalidad histórica, Ediciones de la Torre, page 54:
- […] , durante la dictablanda que sucedió a la dictatura de Primo de Rivera.
- […] , during the soft-handed dictatorship that followed Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship.
- […] , durante la dictablanda que sucedió a la dictatura de Primo de Rivera.
- 1994, Santiago Álvarez, Negrín, personalidad histórica, Ediciones de la Torre, page 54:
Further reading
- “dictablanda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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