durante
See also: Durante
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: du‧ran‧te
Adjective
durante
- long-lasting
Galician
Preposition
durante
- during
Ido
Verb
durante
- adverbial present active participle of durar
Interlingua
Etymology
From Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Preposition
durante
- during
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duˈran.te/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: du‧ràn‧te
Preposition
durante
- during
- in the course of
Participle
durante (plural duranti)
- present participle of durare
Ladino
Preposition
durante (Latin spelling)
- during
Latin
Participle
dūrante
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of dūrāns
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /duˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /duˈɾɐ̃.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /duˈɾɐ̃.t(ɨ)/
- (Nordestino) IPA(key): /du.ˈɾɐ̃.ti/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
- Hyphenation: du‧ran‧te
Etymology 1
From Latin dūrantem (“enduring”), from dūrō (“last, endure”), from dūrus (“hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *drew- (“hard, fest”).
Preposition
durante
- during (for all of a given time interval)
- O preço das maçãs subiu durante a guerra.
- The price of apples rose during the war.
- during (at any point within a given time interval)
- Um aluno dormiu durante a aula.
- A student fell asleep during class.
- for (introduces the duration of an occurrence)
- Corri durante vinte minutos hoje cedo.
- I ran for twenty minutes this morning.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:durante.
Synonyms
- (for): por
Related terms
- durabilidade
- duradouro
- durar
- durável
- dureza
- duro
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian durante.
Noun
durante m (plural durantes)
- a type of glossy wool fabric
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dūrāns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duˈɾante/ [d̪uˈɾãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: du‧ran‧te
Preposition
durante
- during, in, over
- Durante el verano nos gusta ir al parque acuático.
- In the summer we like to go to the water park.
- durante la noche ― overnight
- for (as a duration)
- Acabo de enterarme de que me ha estado mintiendo durante años.
- I just found out that he's been lying to me for years.
Further reading
- “durante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014