intrigante
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French intrigante.
Noun
intrigante (plural intrigantes)
- (dated) A female intriguer.
- 1862, The Living Age, volume 72, page 188:
- It is curious to find her on one occasion surreptitiously opening a letter of her husband's to one Sarah Ryan, a housekeeper, an intrigante […]
Anagrams
Esperanto
Adverb
intrigante
- present adverbial active participle of intrigi
French
Adjective
intrigante
- feminine singular of intrigant
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
intrigante
- inflection of intrigant:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.triˈɡan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: in‧tri‧gàn‧te
Adjective
intrigante m or f (plural intriganti)
Derived terms
Related terms
Participle
intrigante m or f (plural intriganti)
- present participle of intrigare
Noun
intrigante m or f by sense (plural intriganti)
Further reading
- intrigante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈɡɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈɡɐ̃.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈɡɐ̃.tɨ/ [ĩ.tɾiˈɣɐ̃.tɨ]
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃t͡ʃi, -ɐ̃tɨ
- Hyphenation: in‧tri‧gan‧te
Adjective
intrigante m or f (plural intrigantes, comparable, comparative mais intrigante, superlative o mais intrigante or intrigantíssimo)
- intriguing (that arouses curiosity)
- intriguing (that causes strangeness or perplexity)
Noun
intrigante m or f by sense (plural intrigantes)
- intrigant
- Synonym: intriguista
Further reading
- “intrigante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “intrigante” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “intrigante”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “intrigante”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “intrigante”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “intrigante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /intɾiˈɡante/ [ĩn̪.t̪ɾiˈɣ̞ãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: in‧tri‧gan‧te
Adjective
intrigante m or f (masculine and feminine plural intrigantes)
Related terms
Noun
intrigante m or f by sense (plural intrigantes)
Further reading
- “intrigante”, 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