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tante

See also: tantē, tànte, tånte, tant'è, and Tante

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Yiddish טאַנטע (tante), from German Tante, from French tante.

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tante (plural tantes)

  1. (usually in forms of address) A Jewish aunt.
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Afrikaans

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From Dutch tante, from French tante.

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tante (plural tantes, diminutive tannie or tantetjie)

  1. aunt

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed via German Tante from French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“paternal aunt”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtandə/, [ˈtˢænd̥ə], [ˈtsʰænd̥ə], [ˈtsʰæntə]

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tante c (singular definite tanten, plural indefinite tanter)

  1. aunt

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Declension of tante
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tante tanten tanter tanterne
genitive tantes tantens tanters tanternes

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  • → Icelandic: tanta

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.

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tante f (plural tantes, diminutive tantetje n)

  1. aunt (sister or sister-in-law of a parent)
    Synonym: moei
  2. (familiar) A woman, especially an older or assertive one.
    De zuster was een kranige tante.
    The nurse was a hardy dame.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French tante, alteration of ante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita ("father's sister"). The initial t- is probably due to childish reduplication.

A derivation from t’ante, that is ta ante (“your aunt”), is grammatically possible because the use of ton with vowel-initial feminines is secondary and was only optional in Middle French. However, if a rebracketing of this sort had occurred, one would not expect it to happen with the second-person pronoun, but much rather the first person (thus *mante).

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tante f (plural tantes)

  1. aunt
    Ma mère et ma tante sont jumelles.
    My mother and my aunt are twins.
  2. (derogatory) homosexual (man); faggot, fag (US); poof (UK)

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French tenter (“attempt, tempt”).

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tante

  1. to attempt
  2. to tempt

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tante

  1. so

Indonesian

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From Malay tante, from Dutch tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.

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tantê (plural tante-tante, first-person possessive tanteku, second-person possessive tantemu, third-person possessive tantenya)

  1. (colloquial) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)
    Synonym: bibi
  2. (colloquial) auntie (an elderly woman)
  3. (colloquial) madam

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtan.te/
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Hyphenation: tàn‧te

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tante f pl

  1. feminine plural of tanto

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Latin

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Adjective

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tante

  1. vocative masculine singular of tantus

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Latvian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Tante (“aunt”), itself a borrowing from French tante (“aunt”). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.[1]

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tante f (5th declension, masculine form: tēvocis), onkulis

  1. aunt (father's sister or mother's sister; father's brother's wife or mother's brother's wife)
    dzīvot pie tantes ― to live at (one's) aunt's
    tante Betsija ― aunt Betsy
  2. aunt (a grown woman, in relation to a child, even if not the child's real aunt)
    Peterēna vienaudži mani jau uzrunā par tanti ― Peterēns (= Little Peter)'s friends called me aunt
    atbrauca inspektors un viena tante no arodbiedrības, veca meita ― the inspector came with an aunt from the trade union, an old girl

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Declension of tante (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) tante tantes
accusative (akuzatīvs) tanti tantes
genitive (ģenitīvs) tantes tanšu
dative (datīvs) tantei tantēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) tanti tantēm
locative (lokatīvs) tantē tantēs
vocative (vokatīvs) tante tantes

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  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. →ISBN.

Malay

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Etymology

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From Dutch tante.

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tante (Jawi spelling تنتى, plural tante-tante, informal 1st possessive tanteku, 2nd possessive tantemu, 3rd possessive tantenya)

  1. (Netherlands) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French ante, from Latin amita.

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tante f (plural tantes)

  1. (Jersey) aunt

North Frisian

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From French tante.

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tante

  1. aunt

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From German Tante (“aunt”), from French tante (“aunt”), from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, antain (“aunt”), from Latin amita (“paternal aunt; father's sister”) (combined with Vulgar Latin *amitāna), from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (“mother”).

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tante f or m (definite singular tanta or tanten, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)

  1. aunt
    Tante Anna kommer på besøk i morgen.
    Aunt Anna is coming to visit tomorrow.
    Min fars søster er min tante.
    My father's sister is my aunt.

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Etymology

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From Latin amita, via Old French ante, French tante, and German Tante.

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tante f (definite singular tanta, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)

  1. aunt

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