tante

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑn.tə/

tante (plural tantes)

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

• aunt

From Dutch tante, from French tante.

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tante (plural tantes, diminutive tannie or tantetjie)

1. aunt

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

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

tante c (singular definite tanten, plural indefinite tanter)

1. aunt

• (paternal aunt): faster c
• (maternal aunt): moster c

• → Icelandic: tanta

• “tante” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑn.tə/

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• Hyphenation: tan‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑntə

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.

• oudtante
• peettante
• suikertante

• 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

• atten, natte

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).

• (France) IPA^(key): /tɑ̃t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /tãt/
• (Switzerland) IPA^(key): /t̪ɑ̃t̪/

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• Homophones: tantes, tente, tentent, tentes

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)

• tata
• (Quebec) matante

• si ma tante en avait, on l’appellerait mon oncle
• tantouze

• oncle, tonton
• cousin, cousine

• “tante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• entât, étant, natte, tenta

From French tenter (“attempt, tempt”).

• IPA^(key): /tãte/

tante

1. to attempt
2. to tempt

tante

1. so

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtantə/
• Rhymes: -tə, -ə
• Hyphenation: tan‧tê

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

• “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.

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

tante f pl

1. feminine plural of tanto

• natte, nattè, netta, tenta

tante

1. vocative masculine singular of tantus

• 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)

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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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 tantes ― to live at (one's) aunt's

   tante Betsija ― aunt 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 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

• mātesmāsa
• tēvamāsa

From Dutch tante.

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)

• emak saudara / امق ساودارا
• mak cik / مق چيق

• Indonesian: tante

• tànte (Guernsey)

From Old French ante, from Latin amita.

tante f (plural tantes)

1. (Jersey) aunt

• Tanti (Sylt)

Borrowed from German Tante, itself from French tante.

tante f (plural tantin)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) aunt

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”).

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.

• filletante
• grandtante

• onkel
• nevø, niese

• “tante” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. aunt

• grandtante

• onkel
• nevø, niese

• “tante” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.