elegante

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See also: élégante and êlégante

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French élégante.

Noun

elegante (plural elegantes)

  1. (dated) A fashionable lady.

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish elegante.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔeleˈɡante/
  • Hyphenation: e‧le‧gan‧te
  • Rhymes: -ante

Adjective

elegante (Badlit spelling ᜁᜎᜒᜄᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

  1. elegant in look

Verb

elegante (Badlit spelling ᜁᜎᜒᜄᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

  1. to be elegant in look

Danish

Adjective

elegante

  1. inflection of elegant:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

elegante

  1. inflection of elegant:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ēlegantem.

Adjective

elegante m or f (plural elegantes)

  1. elegant

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

elegante

  1. inflection of elegant:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ēlegantem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.leˈɡan.te/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Hyphenation: e‧le‧gàn‧te

Adjective

elegante (plural eleganti, superlative elegantissimo)

  1. elegant, dressed up

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

elegante

  1. definite singular of elegant
  2. plural of elegant

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

elegante

  1. definite singular of elegant
  2. plural of elegant

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēlegantem.

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

elegante m or f (plural elegantes, comparable, comparative mais elegante, superlative o mais elegante or elegantíssimo)

  1. elegant

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ēlegantem. Cognate with English elegant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eleˈɡante/
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Syllabification: e‧le‧gan‧te

Adjective

elegante m or f (masculine and feminine plural elegantes)

  1. elegant, graceful
  2. stylish, fancy, chic, smart, classy, high-toned, sleek, posh, fine, fashionable, dashing, snazzy, dressy, nifty, swank, swanky, ritzy
    Synonym: ostentoso

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Cebuano: elegante
  • → Tagalog: elegante

See also

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish elegante.

Pronunciation

Adjective

elegante (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎᜒᜄᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

  1. elegant
    Synonyms: makisig, magara
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