tramuntana

From tramuntà (“transmontane”). The Pyrenees extend to the north of most of the Catalan-speaking area.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾə.munˈta.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾa.munˈta.na]

tramuntana

1. feminine singular of tramuntà

tramuntana f (plural tramuntanes)

1. north
2. north wind

• tramuntar

• “tramuntana”, 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

Borrowed from Sicilian tramuntana (“north wind; north”), from Latin transmontanus (“beyond the mountains”). The use for a north wind is found in several Romance languages; it seems not quite clear what mountains it originally referred to.

• IPA^(key): /tra.munˈtaː.na/

tramuntana f

1. north

   Synonym: (archaic) xmiel

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