regente
See also: régenté, régente, and regenté
Latin
Participle
regente
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of regēns
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regente, singular ablative of regēns.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/ [heˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/ [χeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.te/ [heˈʒẽ.te]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɨˈʒẽ.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: re‧gen‧te
Noun
regente m or f by sense (plural regentes)
- regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)
Descendants
- Hunsrik: Rëschent
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regēns (genitive singular regentis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈxente/ [reˈxẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: re‧gen‧te
Noun
regente m or f (plural regentes)
- regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)
Related terms
- regencia
Verb
regente
- inflection of regentar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “regente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- gerente