distante
French
Adjective
distante
- feminine singular of distant
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /disˈtante/ [d̪is̺ˈt̪an̪.t̪ɪ]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: dis‧tan‧te
Adjective
distante m or f (plural distantes)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “distante”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Interlingua
Adjective
distante (comparative plus distante, superlative le plus distante)
Italian
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Latin distantem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /disˈtan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: di‧stàn‧te
Participle
distante m or f (plural distanti)
- present participle of distare
Adjective
distante m or f (plural distanti, superlative distantissimo)
- distant (space or time)
Related terms
Adverb
distante
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
distante
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of distāns
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin distantem (“being far”), present participle of distō (“to be far”). By surface analysis, distar + -ante.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒisˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiʃˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒisˈtɐ̃.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /diʃˈtɐ̃.tɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
- Hyphenation: dis‧tan‧te
Audio (Portugal): (file)
Adjective
distante m or f (plural distantes)
- distant; faraway
- (of a relative) far-removed
- Me encontrei com uns primos distantes.
- I met with some far-removed cousins.
- very dissimilar
- Synonyms: diferente, dissimilar
- Monarquia e anarquia são conceitos políticos distantes.
- Monarchy and anarchy are very dissimilar political concepts.
- distant (emotionally unresponsive)
- Tornamo-nos pessoas distantes após o acidente.
- We became distant people after the accident.
Adverb
distante
- far (distant in space)
- Synonym: longe
- Moro distante daqui.
- I live far from here.
- away (used when specifying a distance)
- Minha casa fica uns quinhentos metros distante daqui.
- My house is some five hundred metres away from here.
Related terms
- distância
- distanciação
- distanciadamente
- distanciado
- distanciador
- distanciamento
- distanciar
- distantemente
- distar
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distantem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /disˈtante/ [d̪isˈt̪ãn̪.t̪e]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: dis‧tan‧te
Adjective
distante m or f (masculine and feminine plural distantes)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “distante”, 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