Andes

From Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua andi (“high crest”).

• enPR: ănʹdēz, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.diːz/

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the Andes

1. A mountain range in western South America.

• Andean
• andesine
• andesite
• Lake Andes

• DNase, Danes, Deans, Denas, Sande, Sedan, Sedna, Snead, deans, nades, sedan, snead

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈan.dəs/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈan.des/

Andes m pl

1. Andes

• andí

Borrowed from Spanish Andes, or alternatively Latin Andes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.dɛs/, /ˈɑn.dəs/

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• Hyphenation: An‧des

de Andes pl

1. the Andes [from late 16th c.]
   • 1596, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien 1579-1592, Vol. 3, C.P. Burger & F.W.T. Hunger (eds.), Martinus Nijhoff (publ. 1934), page 176.

     Soo zijn dan die grensen oost ende zuyden Argyropolis, nae den nederganck die zuyder Zee, nae't noorden die Province Pastoa, dit landt wordt afghedeelt in driederley deelen, in Planitiem, Sierras, Andes, dat is in even ofte plat landt aen die Zee ligghende, in berghen ofte in berghachtighe landen, die midden door't landt strecken, ende in Peru over het gheberchte nae't oosten.

     The borders are like this: to the east and south Argyropolis (name of a river), to the descent to the south the sea, to the north the Province Pastoa, this land is divided into three parts, into Planitiem, Sierras, Andes, that is into level or flat land lying next to the sea, into mountains or into mountainous lands, that range across the middle of the lands, and into Pery over the mountains to the east.

• andesvos

• danse

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃d/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

Andes f pl

1. the Andes

• danse, dansé

Andes m pl

1. Andes

• andino

• “Andes” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from Spanish Andes, from Quechua andi.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.d͡ʒis/

Andes m pl

1. Andes (a mountain range in South America)

• andino

From Quechua andi (“high crest”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈandes/, [ˈãn̪d̪es]

los Andes m pl

1. the Andes

• andesina
• andesita
• andino