excelente

• excellente (pre-reform spelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin excellentem.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɛ.sɛ.ˈlẽ.tɪ/, /i.sɛ.ˈlẽ.tɪ/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧ce‧len‧te

excelente m or f (plural excelentes)

1. excellent
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “Uma historia verdadeira [A true story]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 44:

     O marquez, cynico como a vida o tornára, era juiz excellente n’este assumpto.

     The marquess, the cynic life had turned him into, was an excellent judge of this matter.

• excellente (obsolete)

From Latin excellentem. Cognate with Italian eccellente, French excellent, English excellent.

• IPA^(key): /eɡsθeˈlente/ [eɣ̞s.θeˈlẽn̪.t̪e] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /eɡseˈlente/ [eɣ̞.seˈlẽn̪.t̪e] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: ex‧ce‧len‧te

excelente m or f (masculine and feminine plural excelentes, superlative excelentísimo)

1. excellent, brilliant, superb
2. copacetic (US slang)
3. tiptop, topnotch, top notch

   Synonym: de primera

• “excelente”, 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