regente
Galician
Noun
regente m or f by sense (plural regentes, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of rexente
Further reading
- “regente” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Latin
Participle
regente
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of regēns
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin regente, singular ablative of regēns. By surface analysis, reger + -ente.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/ [heˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/ [χeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.te/ [heˈʒẽ.te]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɨˈʒẽ.tɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ẽtɨ
- Hyphenation: re‧gen‧te
Noun
regente m or f by sense (plural regentes)
- regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)
- (university slang) professor in charge of a subject's curriculum
- (music) conductor (a person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble)
- Synonym: maestro
Related terms
Descendants
- → Hunsrik: Rëschent
Further reading
- “regente” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “regente”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “regente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈxente/ [reˈxẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: re‧gen‧te
Etymology 1
Noun
regente m or f by sense (plural regentes)
- regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
regente
- inflection of regentar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “regente”, 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