evident

See also: évident

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin ēvidēns (visible, apparent, clear, plain) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (to appear plainly)), from ē (out) + videō (see), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (to appear, seem).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.vɪ.dənt/
  • (file)

Adjective

evident (comparative more evident, superlative most evident)

  1. Obviously true by simple observation.
    It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict:
      Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • evident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • evident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ēvidēns.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ə.viˈdent/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ə.biˈden/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /e.viˈdent/

Adjective

evident (masculine and feminine plural evidents)

  1. obvious; evident

Derived terms

Further reading


German

Etymology

From Latin ēvidēns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [eviˈdɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: evi‧dent
  • (file)
  • (file)

Adjective

evident (comparative evidenter, superlative am evidentesten)

  1. evident

Declension

Further reading


Middle French

Adjective

evident m (feminine singular evidente, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentes)

  1. obvious; evident

Descendants

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