paviada

Spanish

Etymology

From Pavía +‎ -ada, named after Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈbjada/ [paˈβ̞ja.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: pa‧via‧da

Proper noun

paviada f

1. (Spain, historical) a military coup d'état initiated by General Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque on 3 January 1874, during the First Spanish Republic [from 1887]
2. (Spain, by extension) a coup d'état [from 1914]

Further reading

• Golpe de Estado de Pavía on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “paviada”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 5th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 31 January 2018, →ISSN