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quente

Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɛnte/ [ˈkɛn̪.t̪ɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
  • Hyphenation: quen‧te

Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese caente (“hot; warm”), from Latin calēns, calēntem, present participle of caleō.

Adjective

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quente m or f (plural quentes)

  1. hot; warm
    Antonym: frío
    • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:
      Et outrosy, que faça a parede dos ditos baños dos homes, a que caeu, que está ena rúa que ven da çibdade pera os ditos baños, et mais que faça a outra parede, que sal contra as ortas, honde está a fonte dágoa queente.
      And also, that he must build the wall of said men's baths, the one that fell down, which in on the street that comes from the city to said baths, and also that he must build the other wall, the one that exits to the gardens, where it is the hot spring
  2. (of animals) on heat
  3. (vulgar, of people) aroused sexually
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References

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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quente

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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese caente (“hot; warm”), from Latin calentem, present participle of caleō.

Cognate with Galician quente, Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, and Spanish caliente, Aragonese calién and Catalan calent.

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Adjective

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quente m or f (plural quentes, diminutive quentinho)

  1. hot, warm

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:quente.

Derived terms

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