ente

See also: Ente, enté, énte, and -ente

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Preposition

ente

1. between
2. among

Dutch

Verb

ente

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of enten

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ente

1. inflection of enter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Noun

ente f (plural entes)

1. verbal noun of enter

Further reading

• “ente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Betawi ente (“you”), from Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛntɛ/
• Hyphenation: én‧té

Pronoun

énté

1. (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Alternative forms

• anta
• antum

Synonyms

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

• anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• coen (slang, East Java)
• ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• kamu (intimate)
• ko, kowe (informal, Java)
• kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
• lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin entem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: èn‧te

• Audio:

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Noun

ente m (plural enti)

1. corporation, body
2. being
3. entity

Related terms

• entelecheia
• entelechia

See also

• -ente

Latin

Noun

ente

1. ablative singular of ens

Luganda

Etymology

From an Eastern Sudanic language.

Noun

ente (class III, plural ente, base state nte, plural base state nte)

1. cow, cattle

References

• Schoenbrun, David (1993) “We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes”, in The Journal of African History, volume 4, number 1, pages 1–31

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French entre, from Latin inter.

Alternative forms

• entre (Jersey)

Preposition

ente

1. (Guernsey) between

Etymology 2

Of Germanic origin (compare Dutch ent).

Noun

ente f (plural entes)

1. (Jersey) graft

Synonyms

• greffe

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.te/

Noun

ente

1. dative singular of ent

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀏𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• एन्ते (Devanagari script)
• এন্তে (Bengali script)
• එන‍්තෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဧန္တေ or ဨန္တေ or ဢေၼ္တေ or ဢေၼ်တေ (Burmese script)
• เอนฺเต or เอนเต (Thai script)
• ᩑᨶ᩠ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ເອນ຺ເຕ or ເອນເຕ (Lao script)
• ឯន្តេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄬𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ente

1. masculine/neuter locative singular of enta, which is present active participle of eti (“to come”)
2. masculine accusative plural of enta, which is present active participle of eti (“to come”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin entem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ẽtɨ, (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: en‧te

Noun

ente m (plural entes)

1. an existing being or thing

   entes queridos ― loved ones

Related terms

• entidade

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin entem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈente/ [ˈẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: en‧te

Noun

ente m (plural entes)

1. (philosophy) being
2. entity

   Synonym: entidad

   • 2021 April 5, Guillermo Abril, “Puigdemont, la república virtual sobre la Cataluña real”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Fuentes del organismo aseguran que se trata de un ente político tangible, con seis técnicos que trabajan a diario y unos 200 consejos locales desplegados en Cataluña.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• entidad

Further reading

• “ente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

• inte

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *ente (whence also Tocharian A äntannene (“where”) and äntāne (“when”)), from *enä + a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *tód, a form of *só (“this, that”).

Pronoun

ente

1. where, when (interrogative pronoun)
2. where, when (relative pronoun)
3. if, whenever

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ente”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 90-91

Tooro

ente

Etymology

From en- (class 9 noun prefix) + Proto-Sog Eastern Sudanic *-te. Cognate with Luganda ente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /éːnte/
• Rhymes: -éːnte
• Hyphenation: e‧nte

Noun

ente class 9 (plural ente class 10, augmentless nte, plural augmentless nte)

1. cow, bull, ox, cattle, domestic bovine, member of the species Bos taurus

   Hyponyms: enyana (“cow (female)”), enimi (“bull”), endaawa (“ox”)

References

1. Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 26-27
2. Schoenbrun, David (1993) “We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes”, in The Journal of African History, volume 4, number 1, pages 1–31