regente

See also: régenté, régente, and regenté

Galician

Noun

regente m or f by sense (plural regentes, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of rexente

Further reading

• “regente” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Latin

Participle

regente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of regēns

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regente, singular ablative of regēns.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/ [heˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/ [heˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi/ [χeˈʒẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒẽ.te/ [heˈʒẽ.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈʒẽ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: re‧gen‧te

Noun

regente m or f by sense (plural regentes)

1. regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)
2. conductor (a person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble)

   Synonym: maestro

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Rëschent

Further reading

• “regente” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “regente”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “regente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈxente/ [reˈxẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: re‧gen‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin regentem.

Noun

regente m or f by sense (plural regentes)

1. regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)

Related terms

• regencia

 

Etymology 2

Verb

regente

1. inflection of regentar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “regente”, 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

Anagrams

• gerente