entente

Unadapted borrowing from French entente (“understanding”). Doublet of intent.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒ̃ˈtɒ̃t/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑnˈtɑnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt

entente (plural ententes)

1. (politics) An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

• détente
• entente cordiale

From the verb entendre, from Middle French entendre and Old French entendre, from Latin intendere (“to turn one’s attention, to strain”). Alternatively, from Latin intenta; perhaps through a substantivized Vulgar Latin past participle *intendita, as a variant of intenta (cf. intenditus). See also tente.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tɑ̃t/

entente f (plural ententes)

1. accord; agreement
2. interpretation, meaning

• terrain d'entente

• → English: entente
• → Turkish: antant

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

• nénette

From Dutch entente, from French entente (“understanding”).

• IPA^(key): [ɛnˈtɛntə]
• Hyphenation: èn‧tèn‧tê

èntèntê (plural entente-entente)

1. (international relations) entente, an informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states

• “entente” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French entente.

• IPA^(key): /enˈtente/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪ẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: en‧ten‧te

entente f (plural ententes)

1. entente

• “entente”, 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