tante
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Yiddish טאַנטע (tante), from German Tante, from French tante.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tante (plural tantes)
Related terms
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch tante, from French tante.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]tante (plural tantes, diminutive tannie or tantetjie)
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed via German Tante from French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“paternal aunt”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tante c (singular definite tanten, plural indefinite tanter)
Declension
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Icelandic: tanta
Further reading
[edit]- “tante” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tante f (plural tantes, diminutive tantetje n)
- aunt (sister or sister-in-law of a parent)
- Synonym: moei
- (familiar) A woman, especially an older or assertive one.
- De zuster was een kranige tante.
- The nurse was a hardy dame.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: tante
- Berbice Creole Dutch: tanti
- Skepi Creole Dutch: tanta
- → Aukan: tanto
- → Malay: tante
- Indonesian: tante
- → Papiamentu: tanchi, tanta
- → Sranan Tongo: tanta
- → Caribbean Javanese: tante
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French tante, alteration of ante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita ("father's sister"). The initial t- is probably due to childish reduplication.
A derivation from t’ante, that is ta ante (“your aunt”), is grammatically possible because the use of ton with vowel-initial feminines is secondary and was only optional in Middle French. However, if a rebracketing of this sort had occurred, one would not expect it to happen with the second-person pronoun, but much rather the first person (thus *mante).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (France) IPA(key): /tɑ̃t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /tãt/
- (Switzerland) IPA(key): /t̪ɑ̃t̪/
Audio (France): (file) - Homophones: tantes, tente, tentent, tentes
Noun
[edit]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)
Synonyms
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[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Haitian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French tenter (“attempt, tempt”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tante
Ido
[edit]Adverb
[edit]tante
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay tante, from Dutch tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tantê (plural tante-tante, first-person possessive tanteku, second-person possessive tantemu, third-person possessive tantenya)
- (colloquial) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)
- Synonym: bibi
- (colloquial) auntie (an elderly woman)
- (colloquial) madam
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tante” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tante f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tante
References
[edit]- tante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Tante (“aunt”), itself a borrowing from French tante (“aunt”). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
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[edit]Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tante (Jawi spelling تنتى, plural tante-tante, informal 1st possessive tanteku, 2nd possessive tantemu, 3rd possessive tantenya)
- (Netherlands) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Indonesian: tante
Norman
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- tànte (Guernsey)
Etymology
[edit]From Old French ante, from Latin amita.
Noun
[edit]tante f (plural tantes)
North Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tante
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Tante (“aunt”), from French tante (“aunt”), from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, antain (“aunt”), from Latin amita (“paternal aunt; father's sister”) (combined with Vulgar Latin *amitāna), from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (“mother”).
Noun
[edit]tante f or m (definite singular tanta or tanten, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)
- aunt
- Tante Anna kommer på besøk i morgen.
- Aunt Anna is coming to visit tomorrow.
- Min fars søster er min tante.
- My father's sister is my aunt.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “tante” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin amita, via Old French ante, French tante, and German Tante.
Noun
[edit]tante f (definite singular tanta, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “tante” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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- id:Family
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