tante

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Yiddish טאַנטע (tante), from German Tante, from French tante.

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tante (plural tantes)

  1. (usually in forms of address) A Jewish aunt.
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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch tante, from French tante.

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tante (plural tantes, diminutive tannie or tantetjie)

  1. aunt

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed via German Tante from French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (paternal aunt).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtandə/, [ˈtˢænd̥ə], [ˈtsʰænd̥ə], [ˈtsʰæntə]

Noun

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tante c (singular definite tanten, plural indefinite tanter)

  1. aunt

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  • Icelandic: tanta

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.

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Noun

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tante f (plural tantes, diminutive tantetje n)

  1. aunt (sister or sister-in-law of a parent)
    Synonym: moei
  2. (familiar) a woman, especially an older or assertive one
    De zuster was een kranige tante.
    The nurse was a hardy dame.

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French

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Etymology

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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).

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tante f (plural tantes)

  1. aunt
    Ma mère et ma tante sont jumelles.
    My mother and my aunt are twins.
  2. (derogatory) homosexual (man); faggot, fag (US); poof (UK)

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French tenter (attempt, tempt).

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Verb

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tante

  1. to attempt
  2. to tempt

Ido

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Adverb

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tante

  1. so

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay tante, from Dutch tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.

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tantê (plural tante-tante, first-person possessive tanteku, second-person possessive tantemu, third-person possessive tantenya)

  1. (colloquial) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)
    Synonym: bibi
  2. (colloquial) auntie (an elderly woman)
  3. (colloquial) madam

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtan.te/
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Hyphenation: tàn‧te

Adjective

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tante f pl

  1. feminine plural of tanto

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Latin

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Adjective

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tante

  1. vocative masculine singular of tantus

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Latvian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Tante (aunt), itself a borrowing from French tante (aunt). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.[1]

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Noun

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tante f (5th declension, masculine form: tēvocis), onkulis

  1. aunt (father's sister or mother's sister; father's brother's wife or mother's brother's wife)
    dzīvot pie tantesto live at (one's) aunt's
    tante Betsijaaunt Betsy
  2. aunt (a grown woman, in relation to a child, even if not the child's real aunt)
    Peterēna vienaudži mani jau uzrunā par tantiPeterēns (= Little Peter)'s friends called me aunt
    atbrauca inspektors un viena tante no arodbiedrības, veca meitathe inspector came with an aunt from the trade union, an old girl

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References

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  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. →ISBN.

Malay

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Etymology

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From Dutch tante.

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tante (Jawi spelling تنتى, plural tante-tante, informal 1st possessive tanteku, 2nd possessive tantemu, 3rd possessive tantenya)

  1. (Netherlands) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French ante, from Latin amita.

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tante f (plural tantes)

  1. (Jersey) aunt

North Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Tante, itself from French tante.

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tante f (plural tantin)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) aunt

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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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

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tante f or m (definite singular tanta or tanten, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)

  1. 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.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin amita, via Old French ante, French tante, and German Tante.

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tante f (definite singular tanta, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)

  1. aunt

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