cadete

Italian

Verb

cadete

1. inflection of cadere:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet. Doublet of coudel, cabedelo, caudilho, capitel, and capitelo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈde.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈde.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈde.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈde.tɨ/ [kɐˈðe.tɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -et͡ʃi, (Portugal) -etɨ
• Hyphenation: ca‧de‧te

Noun

cadete m or f by sense (plural cadetes)

1. cadet (a student at a military school who is training to be an officer)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈdete/ [kaˈð̞e.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ca‧de‧te

Noun

cadete m or f by sense (plural cadetes)

1. cadet
2. (Latin America) apprentice, trainee

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kadete

Further reading

• “cadete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28