tanti

See also: tánti

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tán.tìː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tán.tìː]

Noun

tantī̀ m (possessed form tantìn)

1. tent, small tarpaulin

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• tánti

Etymology

Borrowed from Austrian German Tante, from French tante, from Old French ante (“aunt”), from Latin amita (“paternal aunt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒnti]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tan‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

Noun

tanti (plural tantik)

1. (dated, colloquial) aunt

   Synonym: nagynéni

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	tanti	tantik
accusative	tantit	tantikat
dative	tantinak	tantiknak
instrumental	tantival	tantikkal
causal-final	tantiért	tantikért
translative	tantivá	tantikká
terminative	tantiig	tantikig
essive-formal	tantiként	tantikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tantiban	tantikban
superessive	tantin	tantikon
adessive	tantinál	tantiknál
illative	tantiba	tantikba
sublative	tantira	tantikra
allative	tantihoz	tantikhoz
elative	tantiból	tantikból
delative	tantiról	tantikról
ablative	tantitól	tantiktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	tantié	tantiké
non-attributive possessive – plural	tantiéi	tantikéi

Possessive forms of tanti

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tantim	tantijaim (or tantiim)
2nd person sing.	tantid	tantijaid (or tantiid)
3rd person sing.	tantija	tantijai (or tantii)
1st person plural	tantink	tantijaink (or tantiink)
2nd person plural	tantitok	tantijaitok (or tantiitok)
3rd person plural	tantijuk	tantijaik (or tantiik)

Further reading

• tanti in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ti/
• Rhymes: -anti
• Hyphenation: tàn‧ti

Adjective

tanti m pl

1. masculine plural of tanto

Anagrams

• tinta

Latin

Adjective

tantī (indeclinable)

1. ellipsis of tantī pretiī (“of such a price”), of economic worth or figuratively:
   1. (relative) worth as much, so much, valued so highly (as...)

      Coordinate term: quantī

      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 4.7.22–23:

        terrai odium ambulat, iam nil sapit
        nec sentit, tantist quantist fungus putidus.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. worth that much, so much; esteemed so highly, of so much importance [with dative ‘to someone’]
      • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.20:

        […] consolatus [Caesar Diviciacum] rogat finem orandi faciat; tanti eius apud se gratiam esse ostendit uti et rei publicae iniuriam et suum dolorem eius voluntati ac precibus condonet.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations 2.7.15:

        Est mihi tanti, Quirites, huius invidiae falsae atque iniquae tempestatem subire, dum modo a vobis huius horribilis belli ac nefarii periculum depellatur

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

• parvī
• quantī

Adjective

tantī

1. inflection of tantus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

References

• "tanti", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

tanti f

1. accusative/instrumental singular of tante

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ti/

Noun

tanti f (uncountable) (informal)

1. (chiefly in the vocative) auntie
2. an older woman
   • 2024, Cătălin Corvrig, Daniel Preda, Ina Popescu, “Mami mi-a spus să nu vă spunem nimic despre tanti care a…”, in Știrile Pro TV‎^[1]:

     „Știți, mami mi-a spus să nu vă spunem nimica despre tanti aceea care a stat la noi în casă moartă!”

     “You know, mommy told me not to tell you anything about that old lady who was lying dead in our house!”

See also

• unchi
• mătușă
• nepot
• nepoată

Further reading

• “tanti”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026