Aragonese

[ ar-uh-guh-neez, -nees ]

adjective

1. of Aragon, its people, or their language.

noun

, plural Ar·a·go·nese.

1. a native or inhabitant of Aragon.
2. the dialect of Spanish spoken in Aragon.

Aragonese

/ ˌærəɡəˈniːz /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Aragon

adjective

1. of or relating to Aragon or its inhabitants

Word History and Origins

Origin of Aragonese¹

1505–15; Aragon (the province) + -ese

Example Sentences

“Until now, we didn’t have any idea of the possible number of neurons dinosaurs could have,” says Fabien Knoll, a paleontologist with the Aragonese Foundation for Research and Development at Dinópolis, a paleontological museum in Teruel, Spain.

From Science Magazine

The Aragonese philosopher would be surprised indeed if he were to rise from the dead today.

From Scientific American

Eventually we park by the Aragonese castle and walk back towards the main square of the town before turning right into Via Giuseppe Di Vita and the reason we have come here: dinner.

From The Guardian

A community of Arabs from the Muslim Emirate of Sicily landed in the eleventh century and dug in so deep that waves of Christian conquest—Norman, Swabian, Aragonese, Spanish, Sicilian, French, and British—couldn’t efface them.

From The New Yorker

At the foot of the Aragonese Pyrenees, Huesca has a population of just 52,000.

From The Guardian