Of or pertaining toCroatia, the Croatian people or their language.
2024 June 20, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Bugatti’s new car is a $4 million, 1,800 horsepower hybrid”, inCNN[1]:
Not only is the industry headed in that direction, but in 2021 Bugatti was spun off from Volkswagen Group and merged with Rimac, theCroatian company that makes the all-electric Rimac Nevera supercar.
An inhabitant ofCroatia, or a person of Croatian descent.
2006, J. M. Smits,Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law,→ISBN, page352:
[A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians andCroatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.]
2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, inCNN[2]:
Serbian forces committed egregious violent acts against ethnicCroatians in the early 1990s, but they don’t equate to genocide, a U.N. court ruled Tuesday.
A distinction is sometimes made betweenCroat(“a person of Croatian ethnicity/descent”) andCroatian(“a person from Croatia but not necessarily an ethnic Croat”).
