intrigante

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French intrigante.

Noun

intrigante (plural intrigantes)

1. (dated) A female intriguer.
   • 1862, The Living Age, volume 72, page 188:

     It is curious to find her on one occasion surreptitiously opening a letter of her husband's to one Sarah Ryan, a housekeeper, an intrigante […]

Anagrams

• intreating, tangeritin

Esperanto

Adverb

intrigante

1. present adverbial active participle of intrigi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tʁi.ɡɑ̃t/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Adjective

intrigante

1. feminine singular of intrigant

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

intrigante

1. inflection of intrigant:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.triˈɡan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: in‧tri‧gàn‧te

Adjective

intrigante m or f by sense (plural intriganti)

1. intriguing

Derived terms

• intrigantemente

Related terms

• intrigare

Participle

intrigante m or f by sense (plural intriganti)

1. present participle of intrigare

Noun

intrigante m or f by sense (plural intriganti)

1. schemer, intriguer
2. busybody, meddler

Further reading

• “intrigante”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• integranti

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Portuguese intrigar

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -antem

Old Galician-Portuguese -ante

Portuguese -ante

Portuguese intrigante

From intrigar + -ante.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈɡɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈɡɐ̃.tɨ/ [ĩ.tɾiˈɣɐ̃.tɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈɡɐ̃.tɨ/ [ĩ.tɾiˈɣɐ̃.tɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈɡɐ̃.tɨ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃t͡ʃi, -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: in‧tri‧gan‧te

Adjective

intrigante m or f (plural intrigantes, comparable, comparative mais intrigante, superlative o mais intrigante or intrigantíssimo)

1. intriguing (that arouses curiosity)
2. intriguing (that causes strangeness or perplexity)

Noun

intrigante m or f by sense (plural intrigantes)

1. intrigant

   Synonym: intriguista

Further reading

• “intrigante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “intrigante” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “intrigante”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “intrigante”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “intrigante”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “intrigante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈɡante/ [ĩn̪.t̪ɾiˈɣ̞ãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: in‧tri‧gan‧te

Adjective

intrigante m or f (masculine and feminine plural intrigantes)

1. intriguing
2. scheming

Related terms

• intrigar

Noun

intrigante m or f by sense (plural intrigantes)

1. schemer
2. intriguer

Further reading

• “intrigante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025