cliente

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

cliente f (plural clientes)

1. female equivalent of client

Further reading

• “cliente” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnte

Noun

cliente m or f (plural clienti)

1. customer
2. guest (in a hotel)
3. client
4. regular (of a bar etc)

Anagrams

• lectine

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Latin

Noun

cliente

1. ablative singular of cliēns

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin clientem, accusative of cliēns, Alteration of cluēns, present active participle of clueō (“I am called, named, esteemed”),

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kli.ˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /kli.ˈẽ.te/

Noun

cliente m, f (plural clientes)

1. customer, client (one who purchases or receives a product or service)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:cliente.

Synonyms

• (customer) freguês, usuário

Related terms

• clientela

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cliēns, clientis, based on clueō (“I am called, named, esteemed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkljente/, [ˈkljẽn̪t̪e]

Noun

cliente m or f (plural clientes) or cliente m (plural clientes, feminine clienta, feminine plural clientas)

1. client
2. customer
3. (computing) client

Usage notes

Historically, and still more common currently, this noun has had the same form for both genders ("el cliente" and "la cliente"; "los clientes" and "las clientes").

Related terms

• clientela

Further reading

• “cliente” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.