dictablanda
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