tante
Afrikaans
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑn.tə/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: tan‧te
- Rhymes: -ɑntə
Noun
tante f (plural tantes, diminutive tantetje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
French
Etymology
From Old French ante (nominative form), from Latin amita.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑ̃t/
audio (file)
Noun
tante f (plural tantes)
- aunt
- Ma mère et ma tante sont jumelles.
- My mother and my aunt are twins.
- (derogatory) homosexual (man); faggot, fag (US); poof (UK)
- T'as vu cette tante qui traversait la rue ?
- Did you see that faggot crossing the street?
Synonyms
Descendants
Further reading
- “tante” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Ido
Indonesian
Latin
References
- tante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Latvian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Tante (“aunt”), itself a borrowing from French tante (“aunt”). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.[1]
Noun
tante f (5th declension, masculine form: tēvocis), onkulis
- aunt (father's sister or mother's sister; father's brother's wife or mother's brother's wife)
- dzīvot pie tantes ― to live at (one's) aunt's
- tante Betsija ― aunt Betsy
- aunt (a grown woman, in relation to a child, even if not the child's real aunt)
- Peterēna vienaudži mani jau uzrunā par tanti ― Peterēns (= Little Peter)'s friends called me aunt
- atbrauca inspektors un viena tante no arodbiedrības, veca meita ― the inspector came with an aunt from the trade union, an old girl
Declension
Synonyms
- mātesmāsa
- tēamāsa
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. →ISBN.
Malay
Noun
tante (Jawi spelling تنتى, plural tante-tante, informal first-person singular possessive tanteku, impolite second-person singular possessive tantemu, third-person singular possessive tantenya)
- (Netherlands) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)
Synonyms
- emak saudara / امق ساودارا
- mak cik / مق چيق
North Frisian
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
tante f or m (definite singular tanta or tanten, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)