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/

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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.

   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

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)
• 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