esventrament
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [əz.bən.tɾəˈmen]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əz.vən.tɾəˈment]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ez.ven.tɾaˈment]
Noun
esventrament m (plural esventraments)
- evisceration
- teardown, demolition
- 1964, Josep Maria Ferrer, L'urbanisme:
- Els esventraments d'Haussmann destruïren la vida local dels barris, alhora que els eixamplaments de vies suprimien la intimitat del porta a porta tot esperant que el trànsit mecànic vingués a interposar una barrera incessant entre totes dues vores del carrer.
- Haussmann's teardowns destroyed the local life of the neighbourhoods, at the same time that the widening of the roads suppressed the door-to-door intimacy in the expectation that mechanical transit would come to interpose an incessant barrier between both sides of the street.
Further reading
- “esventrament”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007