Canigó

Catalan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kə.niˈɣo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ka.niˈɣo]
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ka.niˈɡu/

Proper noun

Canigó m

1. Canigou (a mountain the Pyrénées-Orientales department, southern France)
   • 1901 [1886], Jacint Verdaguer, “Cant II. Flordeneu”, in Canigó […] , Barcelona: Biblioteca de «Catalunya Artística»:

     Lo Canigó es una magnolia immensa / que en un rebrot del Pirineu se bada;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → French: Canigou

Further reading

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