dictablanda
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish.
Noun[edit]
dictablanda (plural dictablandas)
Translations[edit]
soft-handed dictatorship
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A pun on dictadura (“dictatorship”), reanalyzing the -dura as being the adjective dura (“hard”) and replacing it with the adjective blanda (“soft”). Compare Portuguese ditabranda.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dictablanda f (plural dictablandas)
- a soft-handed dictatorship
- 1994, Santiago Álvarez, Negrín, personalidad histórica, Ediciones de la Torre, page 54:
- […] , durante la dictablanda que sucedió a la dictatura de Primo de Rivera.
- […] , during the soft-handed dictatorship that followed Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship.
Further reading[edit]
- “dictablanda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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