tanti

Borrowed from English tent.

• IPA^(key): /tán.tìː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tán.tìː]

tantī̀ m (possessed form tantìn)

1. tent, small tarpaulin

• tánti

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒnti]

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• Hyphenation: tan‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

tanti (plural tantik)

1. (dated, colloquial) aunt

   Synonym: nagynéni

• tanti in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ti/
• Rhymes: -anti
• Hyphenation: tàn‧ti

tanti m pl

1. masculine plural of tanto

• tinta

tantī (indeclinable)

1. ellipsis of tantī pretiī (“of such a price”), of economic worth or figuratively:
   1. (relative) worth as much, so much, valued so highly (as...)

      Coordinate term: quantī

      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 4.7.22–23:

        terrai odium ambulat, iam nil sapit
        nec sentit, tantist quantist fungus putidus.

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   2. worth that much, so much; esteemed so highly, of so much importance [with dative ‘to someone’]
      • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.20:

        […] consolatus [Caesar Diviciacum] rogat finem orandi faciat; tanti eius apud se gratiam esse ostendit uti et rei publicae iniuriam et suum dolorem eius voluntati ac precibus condonet.

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      • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations 2.7.15:

        Est mihi tanti, Quirites, huius invidiae falsae atque iniquae tempestatem subire, dum modo a vobis huius horribilis belli ac nefarii periculum depellatur

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tantī

1. inflection of tantus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

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

tanti f

1. accusative/instrumental singular of tante

Borrowed from French tante.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ti/

tanti f (uncountable) (informal)

1. (chiefly in the vocative) auntie
2. an older woman
   • 2024, Cătălin Corvrig, Daniel Preda, Ina Popescu, “Mami mi-a spus să nu vă spunem nimic despre tanti care a…”, in Știrile Pro TV‎^[1]:

     „Știți, mami mi-a spus să nu vă spunem nimica despre tanti aceea care a stat la noi în casă moartă!”

     “You know, mommy told me not to tell you anything about that old lady who was lying dead in our house!”

• unchi
• mătușă
• nepot
• nepoată

• “tanti”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026