# tante
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish טאַנטע (tante), from German Tante, from French tante.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈtɑn.tə/

### Noun

tante (plural tantes)
* (usually in forms of address) A Jewish aunt.

#### Related terms

* aunt

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch tante, from French tante.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tante (plural tantes, diminutive tannie or tantetjie)
* aunt

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed via German Tante from French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“paternal aunt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtandə/, [ˈtˢænd̥ə], [ˈtsʰænd̥ə], [ˈtsʰæntə]

### Noun

tante c (singular definite tanten, plural indefinite tanter)
* aunt

#### Synonyms

* (paternal aunt): faster c
* (maternal aunt): moster c

#### Descendants

* → Icelandic: tanta

### Further reading

* “tante” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑn.tə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tan‧te
* Rhymes: -ɑntə

### Noun

tante f (plural tantes, diminutive tantetje n)
* aunt (sister or sister-in-law of a parent)
    Synonym: moei
* (familiar) a woman, especially an older or assertive one
    De zuster was een kranige tante.The nurse was a hardy dame.

#### Derived terms

* oudtante
* peettante
* roddeltante
* suikertante

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: tante
* Berbice Creole Dutch: tanti
* Skepi Creole Dutch: tanta
* → Aukan: tanto
* → Malay: tante
** Indonesian: tante
* → Papiamentu: tanchi, tanta
* → Sranan Tongo: tanta
** → Caribbean Javanese: tante

### Anagrams

* atten, natte

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French tante, alteration of ante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita ("father's sister"). The initial t- is probably due to childish reduplication.
A derivation from t’ante, that is ta ante (“your aunt”), is grammatically possible because the use of ton with vowel-initial feminines is secondary and was only optional in Middle French. However, if a rebracketing of this sort had occurred, one would not expect it to happen with the second-person pronoun, but much rather the first person (thus *mante).

### Pronunciation

* (France) IPA: /tɑ̃t/
* (Canada) IPA: /tãt/
* (Switzerland) IPA: /t̪ɑ̃t̪/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: tantes, tente, tentent, tentes

### Noun

tante f (plural tantes)
* aunt
    Ma mère et ma tante sont jumelles.My mother and my aunt are twins.
* (derogatory) homosexual (man); faggot, fag (US); poof (UK)

#### Synonyms

* tata
* (Quebec) matante

#### Derived terms

* si ma tante en avait, on l’appellerait mon oncle
* tantouze

#### Descendants

* → Basque: ttantta
* → Cimbrian: tånte
* → Danish: tante
** → Icelandic: tanta
* → Dutch: tante
** Afrikaans: tante
** Berbice Creole Dutch: tanti
** Skepi Creole Dutch: tanta
** → Aukan: tanto
** → Malay: tante
*** Indonesian: tante
** → Papiamentu: tanchi, tanta
** → Sranan Tongo: tanta
*** → Caribbean Javanese: tante
* → German: Tante
** → Hungarian: tanti
** → Latvian: tante
** → Norwegian Bokmål: tante
** → Yiddish: טאַנטע (tante)
*** → English: tante
* → North Frisian: tante
* → Occitan: tanta
* → Romanian: tanti
* → Swedish: tant
* → Vilamovian: tant

#### See also

* oncle, tonton
* cousin, cousine

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* entât, étant, natte, tenta

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French tenter (“attempt, tempt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tãte/

### Verb

tante
* to attempt
* to tempt

## Ido
### Adverb

tante
* so

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay tante, from Dutch tante, from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita, from Proto-Indo-European *amma-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtantə/
* Rhymes: -tə, -ə
* Hyphenation: tan‧tê

### Noun

tantê (plural tante-tante)
* (colloquial) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)
    Synonym: bibi
* (colloquial) auntie (an elderly woman)
* (colloquial) madam

#### Derived terms

* bertante
* tante girang

### Further reading

* “tante” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtan.te/
* Rhymes: -ante
* Hyphenation: tàn‧te

### Adjective

tante f pl
* feminine plural of tanto

### Anagrams

* natte, nattè, netta, tenta

## Latin
### Adjective

tante
* vocative masculine singular of tantus

### References

* "tante", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Latvian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Tante (“aunt”), itself a borrowing from French tante (“aunt”). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

tante f (5th declension, masculine form: tēvocis), onkulis
* aunt (father's sister or mother's sister; father's brother's wife or mother's brother's wife)
    dzīvot pie tantes ― to live at (one's) aunt's
    tante Betsija ― aunt Betsy
* aunt (a grown woman, in relation to a child, even if not the child's real aunt)
    Peterēna vienaudži mani jau uzrunā par tanti ― Peterēns (= Little Peter)'s friends called me aunt
    atbrauca inspektors un viena tante no arodbiedrības, veca meita ― the inspector came with an aunt from the trade union, an old girl

#### Synonyms

* mātesmāsa
* tēvamāsa

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. →ISBN.

## Malay
### Etymology

From Dutch tante.

### Noun

tante (Jawi spelling تنتى, plural tante-tante, informal 1st possessive tanteku, 2nd possessive tantemu, 3rd possessive tantenya)
* (Netherlands) aunt (a parent’s sister or sister-in-law)

#### Synonyms

* emak saudara / امق ساودارا
* mak cik / مق چيق

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: tante

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* tànte (Guernsey)

### Etymology

From Old French ante, from Latin amita.

### Noun

tante f (plural tantes)
* (Jersey) aunt

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* Tanti (Sylt)

### Etymology

Borrowed from German Tante, itself from French tante.

### Noun

tante f (plural tantin)
* (Föhr-Amrum) aunt

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From German Tante (“aunt”), from French tante (“aunt”), from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, antain (“aunt”), from Latin amita (“paternal aunt; father's sister”) (combined with Vulgar Latin *amitāna), from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (“mother”).

### Noun

tante f or m (definite singular tanta or tanten, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)
* aunt
    Tante Anna kommer på besøk i morgen.Aunt Anna is coming to visit tomorrow.
    Min fars søster er min tante.My father's sister is my aunt.

#### Derived terms

* filletante
* grandtante

#### Related terms

* onkel
* nevø, niese

### References

* “tante” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin amita, via Old French ante, French tante, and German Tante.

### Noun

tante f (definite singular tanta, indefinite plural tanter, definite plural tantene)
* aunt

#### Derived terms

* grandtante

#### Related terms

* onkel
* nevø, niese

### References

* “tante” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.