# ente
## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin inter.

### Preposition

ente
* between
* among

## Dutch
### Verb

ente
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of enten

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

ente
* inflection of enter:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Noun

ente f (plural entes)
* verbal noun of enter

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Betawi ente (“you”), from Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛntɛ/
* Hyphenation: én‧té

### Pronoun

énté
* (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

#### Alternative forms

* anta
* antum

#### Synonyms

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:
* anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
* antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
* coen (slang, East Java)
* ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
* kamu (intimate)
* ko, kowe (informal, Java)
* kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
* lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
* mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin entem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛn.te/
* Rhymes: -ɛnte
* Hyphenation: èn‧te
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ente m (plural enti)
* corporation, body
* being
* entity

#### Related terms

* entelecheia
* entelechia

### See also

* -ente

## Latin
### Noun

ente
* ablative singular of ens

## Luganda
### Etymology

From an Eastern Sudanic language.

### Noun

ente (class III, plural ente, base state nte, plural base state nte)
* cow, cattle

### References

* Schoenbrun, David (1993) “We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes”, in The Journal of African History, volume 4, number 1, pages 1–31

## Norman
### Etymology 1

From Old French entre, from Latin inter.

#### Alternative forms

* entre (Jersey)

#### Preposition

ente
* (Guernsey) between

### Etymology 2

Of Germanic origin (compare Dutch ent).

#### Noun

ente f (plural entes)
* (Jersey) graft

##### Synonyms

* greffe

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈen.te/

### Noun

ente
* dative singular of ent

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀏𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* एन्ते (Devanagari script)
* এন্তে (Bengali script)
* එන‍්තෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ဧန္တေ or ဨန္တေ or ဢေၼ္တေ or ဢေၼ်တေ (Burmese script)
* เอนฺเต or เอนเต (Thai script)
* ᩑᨶ᩠ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ເອນ຺ເຕ or ເອນເຕ (Lao script)
* ឯន្តេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄃𑄬𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

ente
* masculine/neuter locative singular of enta, which is present active participle of eti (“to come”)
* masculine accusative plural of enta, which is present active participle of eti (“to come”)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin entem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈẽ.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈẽ.tɨ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ẽtɨ, (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi
* Hyphenation: en‧te

### Noun

ente m (plural entes)
* an existing being or thing
    entes queridos ― loved ones

#### Related terms

* entidade

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin entem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈente/ [ˈẽn̪.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ente
* Syllabification: en‧te

### Noun

ente m (plural entes)
* (philosophy) being
* entity
    Synonym: entidad
** 2021 April 5, Guillermo Abril, “Puigdemont, la república virtual sobre la Cataluña real”, in El País‎:Fuentes del organismo aseguran que se trata de un ente político tangible, con seis técnicos que trabajan a diario y unos 200 consejos locales desplegados en Cataluña.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Related terms

* entidad

### Further reading

* “ente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tocharian B
### Alternative forms

* inte

### Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *ente (whence also Tocharian A äntannene (“where”) and äntāne (“when”)), from *enä + a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *tód, a form of *só (“this, that”).

### Pronoun

ente
* where, when (interrogative pronoun)
* where, when (relative pronoun)
* if, whenever

### Further reading

* Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ente”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 90-91

## Tooro
### Etymology

From en- (class 9 noun prefix) + Proto-Sog Eastern Sudanic *-te. Cognate with Luganda ente.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /éːnte/
* Rhymes: -éːnte
* Hyphenation: e‧nte

### Noun

ente class 9 (plural ente class 10, augmentless nte, plural augmentless nte)
* cow, bull, ox, cattle, domestic bovine, member of the species Bos taurus
    Hyponyms: enyana (“cow (female)”), enimi (“bull”), endaawa (“ox”)

### References

* Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 26-27
* Schoenbrun, David (1993) “We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes”, in The Journal of African History, volume 4, number 1, pages 1–31