almirante

From Old Galician-Portuguese almirante, from Medieval Latin amiratus under influence from -ante and Arabic ال (al-, “the, of the”), from Byzantine Greek ἀμιράς (amirás), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”). See Spanish almirante, French amiral, and English admiral.

• IPA^(key): /almiˈɾante/ [ɑl.miˈɾan̪.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: al‧mi‧ran‧te

almirante m (plural almirantes)

1. admiral (all senses)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “almirante”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “almirante”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “almirante”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “almirante”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese almirante, from Medieval Latin amiratus under influence from -ante and Arabic ال (al-, “the, of the”), from Byzantine Greek ἀμιράς (amirás), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”). See Spanish almirante, French amiral, and English admiral.

• Hyphenation: al‧mi‧ran‧te

almirante m (plural almirantes)

1. admiral (all senses)
2. flag officer
3. (Brazil, colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone

   Synonyms: comandante, capitão, tio, brother, camarada, chefia, amigão

• almirantado
• almirante da armada
• contra-almirante
• vice-almirante

From Old Spanish amirate reinterpreted as a present participle with the suffix -ante and under influence from Arabic ال (al-, “the, of the”), from Medieval Latin amiratus, from Byzantine Greek ἀμιράς (amirás), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”), particularly Arabic أمير الأمراء (ʔamīr al-umarāʔ, “emir of emirs, commander-in-chief”) as used as a title for important commanders in Norman Sicily in the mid-12th century.

• IPA^(key): /almiˈɾante/ [al.miˈɾãn̪.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: al‧mi‧ran‧te

almirante m or f by sense (plural almirantes)

1. admiral

• → Tagalog: almirante

• “almirante”, 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
• David Abulafia (2012), The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, pp. 321–322.

• “almirante”, 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 almirante, from Old Spanish amirate. Doublet of emir and admiral.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalmiˈɾante/ [ʔɐl.mɪˈɾan̪.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: al‧mi‧ran‧te

almirante (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜋᜒᜇᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ) (military, nautical)

1. admiral

   Synonyms: laksamana, admiral

• “almirante”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 26