different between ethnicity vs croat

English

Etymology

ethnic +? -ity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?s?ti/
• Rhymes: -?s?ti

Noun

ethnicity (countable and uncountable, plural ethnicities)

1. The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.
2. An ethnic group.
3. (casual, euphemistic) Race; common ancestry.

Usage notes

In common use, ethnicity is used as a euphemism for the sensitive term race, but with identical meaning: group ancestry and physical characteristics, such as skin color, as in “ethnic Chinese”. In careful use, it refers to any common characteristic or identity, particularly linguistic, national, regional, or religious groups, and can cut across race, such as Hispanic/Latino; or be a subgroup of a racial group, as in German Texan, Chinese Indonesians, Nuyorican (New York Puerto Rican), etc.

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnical
• ethnically
• ethnology
• ethnos

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /k?o?at/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /k?u?at/
• Rhymes: -at

Etymology 1

From the participle of the obsolete Catalan verb croar (“to cross”).

Adjective

croat (feminine croada, masculine plural croats, feminine plural croades)

1. (obsolete) having the shape of a cross
2. (obsolete) decorated with one or more crosses

Synonyms

• creuat

Noun

croat m (plural croats)

1. (historical, military) crusader (a Christian warrior who went on a crusade)
2. (obsolete but later revived) crusader (anyone engaged in a concerted effort to do good)
3. (historical, numismatics) A silver coin of the County of Barcelona minted from 1285 to 1706 and worth 12 diners, so named on account of the large cross on the reverse.

Related terms

• croada (“crusade”)

See also

• Croat (moneda) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology 2

From Serbo-Croatian Hr?v?t (“Croat”).

Adjective

croat (feminine croata, masculine plural croats, feminine plural croates)

1. Croatian (pertaining to Croatia, to the Croatian people, or to the Croatian language)

Noun

croat m (plural croats, feminine croata)

1. Croat (an inhabitant of Croatia or an ethnic Croat)

Related terms

• Croàcia (“Croatia”)

Noun

croat m (uncountable)

1. Croatian (a Slavic language of the Balkans)

   Synonym: serbocroat

Further reading

• “croat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “croat” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “croat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “croat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

From French Croate, from German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kro?at/

Noun

croat m (plural croa?i, feminine equivalent croat?)

1. Croat, Croatian

Adjective

croat m or n (feminine singular croat?, masculine plural croa?i, feminine and neuter plural croate)

1. Croatian