connote

See also: connoté

English

WOTD – 3 November 2007

Etymology

From Medieval Latin connotō (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + notō (“mark”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈnəʊt/, /kɒˈnəʊt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈnoʊt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

connote (third-person singular simple present connotes, present participle connoting, simple past and past participle connoted)

1. (transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.

   Coordinate terms: denote, evoke, allude

   Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.

2. (transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.

   Poverty connotes hunger.

3. (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
4. (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

Synonyms

• (possess an inseparable condition): entail, imply
• (express without overt reference): entail, imply
• (require as a logical predicate): predicate

Derived terms

• connotatory
• misconnote

 

Related terms

• connotation
• connotative
• connotatively
• connotive

Translations

to signify beyond principal meaning

• Asturian: connotar
• Catalan: connotar (ca)
• French: connoter (fr), désigner (fr), indiquer (fr), impliquer (fr)
• Galician: connotar (gl)
• German: konnotieren (de), bedeuten (de)
• Italian: connotare (it)
• Maori: tohutua
• Occitan: connotar
• Polish: sugerować (pl)
• Portuguese: conotar (pt)
• Romanian: sugera (ro), implica (ro)
• Russian: подразумевать (ru) (podrazumevatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: sugerisati (sh), konotirati (sh)
• Slovene: konotirati
• Spanish: connotar (es)

to imply, to suggest

• Bulgarian: означавам (bg) (označavam)
• French: connoter (fr), impliquer (fr)
• German: konnotieren (de), suggerieren (de), bedeuten (de)
• Hungarian: utal (hu)
• Italian: implicare (it), connotare (it)
• Polish: konotować, przywoływać (pl)przywodzić na myśl (pl),
• Portuguese: conotar (pt)
• Romanian: implica (ro)
• Romansch: proponer
• Russian: означа́ть (ru) (označátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: konotirati (sh), implicirati (sh)
• Slovene: namigovati, sugerirati
• Spanish: connotar (es)
• Swedish: innebära (sv)

See also

• denote

Anagrams

• contone

Asturian

Verb

connote

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of connotar

French

Verb

connote

1. inflection of connoter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

connote

1. inflection of connotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative