volante
See also: Volante
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish volante (literally “flying”).
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volante (plural volantes)
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volante
- present adverbial active participle of voli
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volante
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volante
Italian edit
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volante (plural volanti)
Noun edit
volante m (plural volanti)
- steering wheel (of a car)
- Italian police car
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- (noun) pantera
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volante (plural volanti)
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Latin edit
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volante
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin volantem. Compare the inherited doublet voante.
Adjective edit
volante m or f (plural volantes)
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Noun edit
volante m (plural volantes)
- (vehicles) steering wheel
- Synonym: guiador
- (badminton) shuttlecock
- Synonym: peteca
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Etymology 2 edit
From Carlos Volante, an Argentine football player that represented Flamengo during the 1930's to 1940's.
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volante m or f (plural volantes)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
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volante m or f (masculine and feminine plural volantes)
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Noun edit
volante m (plural volantes)
- flyer
- Synonym: volátil
- shuttlecock
- Synonym: plumilla
- (automotive) steering wheel
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volante m or f by sense (plural volantes)
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Further reading edit
- “volante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014