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Dante

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdænti//
  • United Kingdom//ˈdænteɪ//
  • United States//ˈdɑnteɪ//

A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.

    Scattered around the contemporary city are thirty other plaques with passages from the Comedy , evoking a range of places Dante had known and moments and persons he had known or heard about in his thirty-five years of Florentine life:

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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