Alicante
See also: alicante
English edit
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Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌælɪˈkænti/, (dated) /ˌælɪˈkænt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌɑləˈkɑnteɪ/
Proper noun edit
Alicante
- A province of Valencia, Spain.
- A city, the capital of the province of Alicante, Spain.
- a kind of wine grown from the Alicante province.
Translations edit
city in Spain
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Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te
Proper noun edit
Alicante
- a surname
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te
Proper noun edit
Alicante
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”). Originally named Ἄκρα Λευκή (Ákra Leukḗ) or Λευκή Ἄκρα (Leukḗ Ákra, “white summit”) by Phocaean Greeks.
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Proper noun edit
Alicante ?
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Further reading edit
- “Alicante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Vulgar Latin Leukante, ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaliˈkante/, [ʔɐ.lɪˈxan.tɛ]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: A‧li‧can‧te
Proper noun edit
Alicante (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜃᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- a surname from Spanish
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alicante is the 3,258th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 3,931 individuals.