Alicante

• (type of wine): alicant (archaic), aligant (archaic), allegant (archaic), alligant (archaic)

From Spanish Alicante.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌælɪˈkænti/, (dated) /ˌælɪˈkænt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑləˈkɑnteɪ/

Alicante

1. A province of the Valencian Community, Spain.
2. A city, the capital of the province of Alicante, Spain.
3. a kind of wine grown from the Alicante province.
4. A barangay of Enrique B. Magalona, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

   Coordinate terms: Alacaygan, Alicante, Batea, Canlusong, Consing, Cudangdang, Damgo, Gahit, Latasan, Madalag, Manta-angan, Nanca, Pasil, Poblacion I, Poblacion II, Poblacion III, San Isidro, San Jose, Santo Niño, Tabigue, Tanza, Tomongtong, Tuburan — barangays of Enrique B. Magalona

• analcite, Anticlea, laitance

Borrowed from Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).

• Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante

1. a surname

• Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante ?

1. Alicante (a province and city in the Valencian Community, Spain)

From Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”). Originally named Ἄκρα Λευκή (Ákra Leukḗ) or Λευκή Ἄκρα (Leukḗ Ákra, “white summit”) by Phocaean Greeks.

• IPA^(key): /aliˈkante/ [a.liˈkãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante ?

1. Alicante (a province of the Valencian Community, Spain; capital: Alicante)
2. Alicante (a city in Alicante, Spain)

• → Cebuano: Alicante
• → Chinese: 阿利坎特 (Ālìkǎntè) (transliteration)
• → English: Alicante
• → Tagalog: Alicante

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

Borrowed from Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Vulgar Latin Leukante, ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaliˈkante/ [ʔɐ.lɪˈxan̪.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜃᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. a surname from Spanish

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alicante is the 3,258th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 3,931 individuals.