durante

See also: Durante

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du‧ran‧te

Adjective

durante

1. long-lasting

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Galician

Preposition

durante

1. during

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Ido

Verb

durante

1. adverbial present active participle of durar

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Preposition

durante

1. during

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈran.te/

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• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: du‧ràn‧te

Preposition

durante

1. during
2. in the course of

Participle

durante (plural duranti)

1. present participle of durare

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Ladino

Preposition

durante (Latin spelling)

1. during

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Latin

Participle

dūrante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of dūrāns

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /duˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/, [duˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /duˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/, [duˈɾɐ̃.tɨ]

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /du.ˈɾɐ̃.ti/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /du.ˈɾɐ̃.te/
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: du‧ran‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin dūrantem (“enduring”), from dūrō (“last, endure”), from dūrus (“hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *drew- (“hard, fest”).

Preposition

durante

2. during (for all of a given time interval)

   O preço das maçãs subiu durante a guerra.

   The price of apples rose during the war.

4. during (at any point within a given time interval)

   Um aluno dormiu durante a aula.

   A student fell asleep during class.

6. for (introduces the duration of an occurrence)

   Corri durante vinte minutos hoje cedo.

   I ran for twenty minutes this morning.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:durante.

Synonyms

• (for): por

Related terms

• durabilidade
• duradouro
• durar
• durável
• dureza
• duro

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian durante.

Noun

durante m (plural durantes)

1. a type of glossy wool fabric

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dūrāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈɾante/, [d̪uˈɾãn̪.t̪e]
• Hyphenation: du‧ran‧te

Preposition

durante

1. during, in, over

   Durante el verano nos gusta ir al parque acuático. ― In the summer we like to go to the water park.

   durante la noche ― overnight

2. for (as a duration)

   Acabo de enterarme de que me ha estado mintiendo durante años. ― I just found out that he's been lying to me for years.

Further reading

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