Definition of Provencal

1. Noun. The medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France).

Exact synonyms: Occitan
Generic synonyms: Langue D'oc, Langue D'oc French

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture.
Partainyms: Provence

Definition of Provencal

1. Proper noun. (alternative form of Provençal) due to the character ç being difficult to type. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Provence. ¹

3. Proper noun. A language or dialect spoken in Provence. ¹

4. Proper noun. Specifically, the modern Romance Occitan language of Provence; Occitan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Provencal

Proto-Uralic
Proto-Vietic
Proto-Yeniseian
Proto-Yeniseians
Protoctista
Protogreek
Prototheria
Protozoa
Protropin
Protura
Proudhon
Proust
Proustian
Prov.
Provel
Provencal (current term)
Provence
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur-Corse
Provencial
Proventil
Provera
Proverbs
Providence
Providence Island Sign Language
Provisional
Provisional IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisionals
Provo

Literary usage of Provencal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"During the 18th century the standard of Provencal literature declined in originality of subject, form and purity of language. ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1921)
"RDTA Provencal text with French prose translation at foot of page. ... NM Provencal text and French prose translation on opposite pages. Janvier Collection. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"While Catalan was strongly influenced by Provencal in a literary way, the language of ... Catalan poetry, strongly influenced by the Provencal troubadour, ..."

4. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"ORIGIN OF THE Provencal LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. — BARCELONA. ... Provencal literature appeared in Spain as early as any portion of the Castilian, ..."

5. A Summary of the Literatures of Modern Europe: (England, France, Germany by Marian Edwardes (1907)
"36 Provencal POETRY. The lyric was the chief feature of Provencal poetry ; the South ... The J 2th and I3th centuries covered the golden period of Provencal ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"To Dante, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, it was Provencal as distinguished from the lengua materna, or Italian: and Provencal it is, ..."

7. History of Provençal Poetry by Claude Charles Fauriel (1860)
"THE rapidity with which the taste for Provencal literature spread through the rest of ... From the moment the countries of the Provencal tongue had detached ..."

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