Lusitanity

English Etymology en :af Lusitan -ity + 1 Pronunciation en /ˌluːsɪˈtænɪti/ en ænɪti 5 Noun - The quality or state of being Lusitan or Lusitanian. en Lusitanness Portugueseness en 2009 The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age 265 https://books.google.com/books?id=fDrXAAAAMAAJ Arrival at this dense and archaic magma, beneath recent signification and the subtle song that sculpts it, magnifies all singularities – the Frenchness of French, the Lusitanity of Portuguese, the mass of Latin in the Romance languages – but also opens onto the shadow-mouth from which Ur-Musik emerges. en 2014 Cyril Aslanov Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change Lingua Franca in the Western Mediterranean: between myth and reality 131 https://books.google.com/books?id=ywbpBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 This embryo of Portuguese-based Lingua Franca’s contact with other Romance languages (mainly Spanish and Italo-Romance) could have attenuated the Lusitanity of that language since it served not only for the communication between Christians and Muslims, but also for the language intercourse between Christians that came from various places of Romania. en 2024 Filhos da Terra: Mestizos Identities at the Margins 101 https://books.google.com/books?id=r3I2EQAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 In the case of Luso-tropical peoples this is a unique thing that happens [...]: they are still Luso when they become aware of their condition as extra-European peoples, with a new type of civilization in development. Brazil, already a great nation in the Americas since the end of the First World War, has begun to be the first mainly tropical power that does not feel the need to stop being Lusitanian in its main forms of co-existence and culture. On the contrary: [Brazil] makes a gala of its Lusitanity, one which does not compromise the condition of a creative and actively extra-European people; and it is not just a passive footman of Paris or London; Lisbon or Madrid. Translations Catalan: ca lusitanitat f French: fr lusitanité f Italian: it lusitanità f Portuguese: pt lusitanidade f Spanish: es lusitanidad f