travesti

See also: travestí and travestì

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish travesti and Portuguese travesti, themselves both from French travesti. Doublet of travesty.

Noun

travesti (plural travestis)

  1. A member of a Latin American gender role, variously construed as a cross-dressing men, a third gender or a trans woman.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁa.vɛs.ti/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

travesti m (plural travestis)

  1. transvestite

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: τραβεστί m or f (travestí)
  • Portuguese: travesti m or f
  • Spanish: travesti m or f
  • Turkish: travesti

Participle

travesti (feminine travestie, masculine plural travestis, feminine plural travesties)

  1. past participle of travestir

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

travesti

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of travestir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Italian

Verb

travesti

  1. inflection of travestire:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French travesti.

Pronunciation

 
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾaˈvɛʃ.ti/, /tɾa.vɛʃˈti/
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾaˈbɛʃ.ti/ [tɾaˈβɛʃ.ti], /tɾa.bɛʃˈti/ [tɾa.βɛʃˈti]

  • Rhymes: -i, -ɛʃti
  • Hyphenation: tra‧ves‧ti

Noun

travesti m or f by sense (plural travestis)

  1. transvestite; cross-dresser (person who wears clothing of the opposite sex)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: tra‧ves‧ti

Verb

travesti

  1. inflection of travestir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French travestir.

Verb

a travesti (third-person singular present travestește, past participle travestit) 4th conjugation

  1. to disguise

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French travesti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾaˈbesti/ [t̪ɾaˈβ̞es.t̪i]
  • Rhymes: -esti
  • Syllabification: tra‧ves‧ti

Noun

travesti m or f by sense (plural travestis)

  1. transvestite, cross-dresser
    Synonym: travestí

Noun

travesti f (plural travestis)

  1. (Rioplatense, Chile, Andes) trans woman
    Synonym: mujer trans

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Travestie, from English travesty, from French travestir. Doublet of transvestit.

Noun

travesti c

  1. travesty

Declension

Declension of travesti
nominative genitive
singular indefinite travesti travestis
definite travestin travestins
plural indefinite travestier travestiers
definite travestierna travestiernas

Synonyms

References

Turkish

Etymology

From French travesti.

Noun

travesti (definite accusative travestiyi, plural travestiler)

  1. (slang, derogatory, offensive) transvestite