buscante
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
buscante (plural buscanti)
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: bus‧can‧te
Adjective edit
buscante m or f (plural buscantes)
- seeker (one who seeks)
Noun edit
buscante m (plural buscantes)
- (archaic, hunting) tracker hound
- 1516, Garcia de Resende, “De Diogo Velho”, in Cancioneiro Geral[1], page 183:
- O dos muy lindos buſcãtes, / rraſteyros, & tam voantes, / caçadores rraſtejantes, / que caçam çaça [sic] rreal.
- He who owns the very beautiful 'tracker hounds, / grovelers, and so swift, / crawling hunters, / who hunt the royal hunt.
References edit
- ^ “buscante” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.