candidat

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candidātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [kən.diˈðat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [kan.diˈðat]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

candidat m (plural candidats, feminine candidata, feminine plural candidates)

1. candidate

Derived terms

• candidatura

Further reading

• “candidat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “candidat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “candidat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “candidat”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“candid, white”), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.di.da/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

• Homophone: candidats

Noun

candidat m (plural candidats, feminine candidate)

1. candidate

Derived terms

• candidature
• candidater

Descendants

• → Dutch: kandidaat (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“candid, white”), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.

Noun

candidat m (plural candidats, feminine candidate)

1. (Jersey) candidate

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French candidat.

Noun

candidat m (plural candidați, feminine equivalent candidată)

1. candidate

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	candidat	candidatul	candidați	candidații
genitive-dative	candidat	candidatului	candidați	candidaților
vocative	candidatule		candidaților