travesti

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

travesti (plural travestis)

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

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.vɛs.ti/

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travesti m (plural travestis)

1. transvestite

• travestissement
• travestisme

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

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

1. past participle of travestir

• “travesti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• vitrâtes

travesti

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

Borrowed from Dutch travestie (“travesty”), from French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), tra- (“across”) +‎ vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”), the verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /traˈvɛsti/ [t̪raˈfɛs.t̪i]
• Rhymes: -ɛsti
• Syllabification: tra‧ves‧ti

travesti (plural travesti-travesti)

1. travesty
   1. parody or stylistic imitation

      Synonyms: karikatur, parodi

   2. absurd or grotesque misrepresentation
2. parody
3. caricature
4. mockery
5. crossdressing
   1. (drama) male ludruk performers wearing women's costumes

• “travesti”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

travesti

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

• traviste

Borrowed from French travesti.

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

travesti f (plural travestis)

1. (Brazil) A person with a Latin American transgender identity of people who were assigned male at birth but identify as female, non-binary or even a third gender.
   • Luís Roberto Barroso (18 April 2021), ADPF 527 MC / DF‎^[1] (in Portuguese) (court ruling), Brasília, page 16:

     Postulou-se a transferência de transexuais mulheres para presídios femininos e, após aditamento à inicial, que se conferisse às custodiadas travestis identificadas socialmente com o gênero feminino a possibilidade de optar por cumprir pena em estabelecimento prisional do gênero feminino ou masculino.

   • 2024 February 15, Leonardo Valle, “O que é travesti?”, in Igualize‎^[2]:

     “A travesti é uma pessoa que vivencia papéis de gênero feminino. Pode se entender como mulher, como integrante um terceiro gênero ou de um não-gênero. Ou seja, ela pode ou não se reconhecer como mulher ou somente como travesti”, explica a doutora em psicologia, professora da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) e presidenta da Associação Brasileira de Estudos da Trans-Homocultura (Abeth-Brasil) Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus.

     “The travesti is a person who experiences female gender roles. They can understand themselves as women, as belonging to a third gender or to a non-gender. In other words, she may or may not recognize themselves as a woman or only as a travesti”, explains Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus, PhD in psychology, professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and president of the Brazilian Association of Trans-Homoculture Studies (Abeth-Brasil).

travesti m or f by sense (plural travestis)

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

   Synonym: traveco (Brazil, offensive)

• travestir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: tra‧ves‧ti

travesti

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

• “travesti”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “travesti”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French travestir.

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

1. to disguise

Borrowed from French travesti.

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

travesti m or f by sense (plural travestis)

1. transvestite, cross-dresser

   Synonym: travestí

travesti f (plural travestis)

1. (Rioplatense, Chile, Andes) trans woman

   Synonym: mujer trans

• “travesti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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

travesti c

1. travesty

• parodi
• pastisch

• travestera

• travesti in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• travesti in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• travesti in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From French travesti.

travesti (definite accusative travestiyi, plural travestiler)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive) transvestite