noun, masculine/ɔk.si.tɑ̃/
Occitan (a Romance language spoken in Occitania, a region of Europe that includes Southern France, Auvergne, Limousin, and some parts of Catalonia and Italy)
Related: ancien occitan, occitan médiéval, occitanisme, occitaniste
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Occitānus in the phrase lingua Occitāna, Latinization of langue d'oc. The ending -itanus perhaps after aquitanus.