evident

See also: évident

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.vɪ.dənt/

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AdjectiveEdit

evident (comparative more evident, superlative most evident)

1. Obviously true by simple observation; eyely.

   It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.

   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:

     Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.

Derived termsEdit

• evidently
• inevident
• self-evident

Related termsEdit

• evidence
• evidential

TranslationsEdit

obviously true

• Albanian: dukshëm
• Bulgarian: очевиден (bg) (očeviden)
• Catalan: evident (ca)
• Czech: zjevný (cs), evidentní
• Danish: indlysende (da)
• Finnish: selvä (fi), ilmeinen (fi), silminnähtävä (fi)
• French: évident (fr) m
• Galician: evidente
• Hungarian: nyilvánvaló (hu), evidens (hu)
• Irish: follasach, soiléir
• Italian: evidente (it)
• Latvian: redzams, acīm redzams
• Maori: ari

• Pashto: ښکاره‎‎ (ps) (ẍkâra), څرګند‎‎ (śargand)
• Polish: jasny (pl), oczywisty (pl)
• Portuguese: evidente (pt)
• Romanian: evident (ro)
• Russian: очеви́дный (ru) (očevídnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:

  Roman: očito (sh)

• Spanish: evidente (es)
• Turkish: bariz (tr), bariz (tr)
• Ukrainian: очевидний (očevydnyj), наочний (naočnyj)
• Welsh: amlwg (cy)

Further readingEdit

• evident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• evident in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin ēvidēns.

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.viˈdent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.biˈden/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.viˈdent/

AdjectiveEdit

evident (masculine and feminine plural evidents)

1. obvious; evident

Derived termsEdit

• evidentment

Related termsEdit

• evidència

Further readingEdit

• “evident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Middle FrenchEdit

AdjectiveEdit

evident m (feminine singular evidente, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentes)

1. obvious; evident

DescendantsEdit

• French: évident