agente

From agent +‎ -e or borrowed from French agente.

• IPA^(key): /ˌaːˈɣɛn.tə/

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• Hyphenation: agen‧te

agente f (plural agentes, diminutive agentje n, masculine agent)

1. female police officer
2. female spy

• (female police officer): politieagente
• (female spy): spionne

• agens

From agent +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒɑ̃t/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃t

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agente f (plural agentes)

1. female equivalent of agent

• agente provocatrice

• IPA^(key): /aˈd͡ʒɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: a‧gèn‧te

From Latin agentem.

agente m (plural agenti)

1. agent, representative
2. constable, low rank police officer, from "polizia"

• agente immobiliare
• agente provocatrice
• agenzia

• → Turkish: acente

agente m or f (plural agenti)

1. present participle of agire

• agente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• negate

agente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of agēns

Learned borrowing from Latin agente. By surface analysis, agir +‎ -ente.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): [aˈʒẽti]
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ẽtɨ
• Homophone: a gente
• Hyphenation: a‧gen‧te

agente m or f by sense (plural agentes)

1. agent (one who exerts power)

• agência

agente

1. misspelling of a gente

• IPA^(key): /aˈd͡ʒente/

agente f pl

1. plural of agentă

Borrowed from Latin agentem, present active participle of agō.

• IPA^(key): /aˈxente/ [aˈxẽn̪.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: a‧gen‧te

agente m or f by sense (plural agentes)

1. agent

   Es agente de una gran compañía de seguros.

   He's an agent for a big insurance company.

2. police officer, policeman, policewoman

   Synonyms: policía, agente de policía

   Pregunte al agente dónde está la plaza de Santiago.

   Ask the policeman where St. James' Square is.

agente m (plural agentes)

1. (linguistics) agent

• “agente”, 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