Croatian

From Croat +‎ -ian or Croatia +‎ -an.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɹəʊˈeɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɹoʊˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Croatian (comparative more Croatian, superlative most Croatian)

1. Of or pertaining to Croatia, the Croatian people or their language.
   • 2024 June 20, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Bugatti’s new car is a $4 million, 1,800 horsepower hybrid”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Not only is the industry headed in that direction, but in 2021 Bugatti was spun off from Volkswagen Group and merged with Rimac, the Croatian company that makes the all-electric Rimac Nevera supercar.

Croatian (plural Croatians)

1. An inhabitant of Croatia, or a person of Croatian descent.
   • 2006, J. M. Smits, Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, →ISBN, page 352:

     [A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians and Croatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.]

   • 2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Serbian forces committed egregious violent acts against ethnic Croatians in the early 1990s, but they don’t equate to genocide, a U.N. court ruled Tuesday.

A distinction is sometimes made between Croat (“a person of Croatian ethnicity/descent”) and Croatian (“a person from Croatia but not necessarily an ethnic Croat”).

Croatian

2. A standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Croats.
3. (historical) Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Croatia.

• Serbo-Croatian
• Appendix:Croatian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Croatian

• ISO 639-1 code hr, ISO 639-3 code hrv (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Croatian, hrv ⁠

• Catriona, Toarcian, anaortic, cantoria, raincoat