batasuno
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Basque Batasuna (literally “Unity”), the name of a former left-wing Basque nationalist party.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]batasuno m (plural batasunos, feminine batasuna, feminine plural batasunas)
- (Spain, derogatory) a member or supporter of Batasuna
- (by extension, Spain, derogatory) a member or supporter of EH Bildu, more generally, a left-wing Basque nationalist
- Synonyms: (derogatory) bilduetarra, abertzale
- 2021 April 5, Asier Martiarena, “Ayuso alerta de que "España está en peligro" por un PSOE refugio de "golpistas y batasunos"”, in La Vanguardia[1]:
- 2018 July 9, “Pablo Casado, abucheado en Pamplona: "Los batasunos no quieren dejarnos hablar"”, in HuffPost[2]:
- 2019 July 18, Gonzaga Durán, “Fallece la mujer que desafiaba a los batasunos en Pamplona con una bandera de España en su balcón”, in OkDiario[3]:
Further reading
[edit]- “batasuno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28