tante

From Dutch tante, from French tante.

tante (plural tantes, diminutive tannie or tantetjie)

1. aunt

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

• IPA^(key): /tantə/, [ˈtˢɛnd̥ə]

tante c (singular definite tanten, plural indefinite tanter)

1. aunt

• → Icelandic: tanta

• (paternal aunt): faster c
• (maternal aunt): moster c

• “tante” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑn.tə/

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• Hyphenation: tan‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑntə

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.

• oudtante
• peettante
• suikertante

• Afrikaans: tante
• → Aukan: tanto
• → Malay: tante
  • Indonesian: tante
• → Papiamentu: tanta
• → Sranan Tongo: tanta

• atten, natte

From Old French ante (nominative form), from Latin amita.

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃t/

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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)

   T'as vu cette tante qui traversait la rue ?

   Did you see that faggot crossing the street?

• tata

• oncle, tonton
• cousin, cousine

• → Dutch: tante
  • Afrikaans: tante
  • → Aukan: tanto
  • → Malay: tante
    • Indonesian: tante
  • → Papiamentu: tanta
  • → Sranan Tongo: tanta
• → Danish: tante
  • → Icelandic: tanta
• → German: Tante
  • → Latvian: tante
• → North Frisian: tante
• → Norwegian: tante
• → Occitan: tanta
• → Swedish: tant
• → Vilamovian: tant

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

• entât, étant, natte, tenta

From French tenter (“attempt, tempt”).

tante

1. to attempt
2. to tempt

tante

1. so

From Malay tante, from Dutch tante.

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

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

• tanta

tante

1. Feminine plural of adjective tanto.

• netta, tenta

tante

1. vocative masculine singular of tantus

• tante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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

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

• mātesmāsa
• tēamāsa

From Dutch tante.

tante (Jawi spelling تنتى‎, plural tante-tante, informal first-person singular possessive tanteku, impolite second-person singular possessive tantemu, third-person singular possessive tantenya)

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

• emak saudara / امق ساودارا‎
• mak cik / مق چيق‎

• Indonesian: tante

• tànte (Guernsey)

From Old French ante, from Latin amita.

tante f (plural tantes)

1. (Jersey) aunt

tante

1. aunt

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

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

1. aunt

• grandtante

• onkel
• nevø, niese

• “tante” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. aunt

• grandtante

• onkel
• nevø, niese

• “tante” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.