Alicante

See also: alicante

English

Alternative forms

• alicant (archaic)
• aligant (archaic)
• allegant (archaic)
• alligant (archaic)

Etymology

From Spanish Alicante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌælɪˈkænti/, (dated) /ˌælɪˈkænt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɑləˈkɑnteɪ/

Proper noun

Alicante

1. A province of Valencia, Spain.
2. A city, the capital of the province of Alicante, Spain.
3. a kind of wine grown from the Alicante province.

Translations

city in Spain

• Arabic: الْقَنْت (al-qant), لَقَنْت (laqant)

  Hijazi Arabic: القنت f (al-gant), لقنت f (lagant)

• Catalan: Alacant (ca)
• French: Alicante (fr)
• Galician: Alacant (gl)
• Italian: Alicante
• Portuguese: Alicante f
• Spanish: Alicante (es)

Anagrams

• analcite, laitance

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te

Proper noun

Alicante

1. a surname

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.liˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.liˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.liˈkɐ̃.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.liˈkɐ̃.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te

Proper noun

Alicante

1. Alicante (a province and city in Valencia, Spain)

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”). Originally named Ἄκρα Λευκή (Ákra Leukḗ) or Λευκή Ἄκρα (Leukḗ Ákra, “white summit”) by Phocaean Greeks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aliˈkante/ [a.liˈkãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: A‧li‧can‧te

Proper noun

Alicante ?

1. Alicante (a province of Valencia, Spain; capital: Alicante)
2. Alicante (a city in Alicante, Spain)

Derived terms

• alicantino

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: Alicante
• → English: Alicante
• → Tagalog: Alicante

Further reading

• “Alicante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Vulgar Latin Leukante, ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaliˈkante/ [ʔɐ.lɪˈxan̪.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: A‧li‧can‧te

Proper noun

Alicante (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜃᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. a surname from Spanish

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alicante is the 3,258th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 3,931 individuals.