bourgade

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan borgada, from borc (“settlement, town”) +‎ -ada. By surface analysis, bourg +‎ -ade. Compare Italian borgata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʁ.ɡad/

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Noun

bourgade f (plural bourgades)

1. village
   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Dans une bourgade de la Manche, dont je ne veux pas me rappeler le nom, vivait, il n’y a pas longtemps, un hidalgo […]

     In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not want to remember, lived, not long ago, an hidalgo […]

Further reading

• “bourgade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.