Gaudí

See also: gaudi and gaudí

Catalan

Etymology

From a personal name cognate to Old French Gaudin, from gaut (“woods”), from Frankish *walþu (“woods, woodland”), or from a hypocoristic form of any one of several Germanic personal names beginning with the element *waldą (“force”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Gaudí m or f by sense

  1. a surname from patronymic
  2. Antoni Gaudí, a Catalan architect who is known for the Sagrada Familia

Derived terms

  • gaudinisme

Further reading

  • “Gaudí” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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