figurante

English

Etymology

From French figurante.

Noun

figurante (plural figurantes)

1. (dated) A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215:

     Gradually the hedges and fields give way before long rows of houses; and a few single domiciles, with plats of turf cut into patterns, and bunches of daisies dusty and dry as if just dropped from the wreath of a figurante, are what the orientals call so pleasant and rural, so convenient for stages and Sunday.

References

• “figurante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• featuring

Esperanto

Adverb

figurante

1. present adverbial active participle of figuri

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

figurante f (plural figurantes)

1. figurante

Further reading

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

Italian

Participle

figurante (plural figuranti)

1. present participle of figurare

Noun

figurante m (plural figuranti)

1. extra, bit player, walk-on (in a film, play, TV show etc.)

Latin

Participle

figūrante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of figūrāns

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fi.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fi.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fi.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fi.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/ [fi.ɣuˈɾɐ̃.tɨ]

• Hyphenation: fi‧gu‧ran‧te

Noun

figurante m or f by sense (plural figurantes)

1. extra, bit player, walk-on (in a film, play, TV show etc.)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiɡuˈɾante/ [fi.ɣ̞uˈɾãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: fi‧gu‧ran‧te

Noun

figurante m or f by sense (plural figurantes, feminine figuranta or figurante, feminine plural figurantas or figurantes)

1. extra, bit player, walk-on (in a film, play, TV show etc.)
   • 1925, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, El Papa del mar:

     se le aparecían imaginativamente como personajes de ópera bajando de un carro de oro falso entre muchedumbres de coristas y figurantes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “figurante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10