Dante

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Dante

  • /ˈdænti/ UK
  • /ˈdænteɪ/ UK
  • /ˈdɑnteɪ/ US

Rhymes with -ænti, -ænteɪ, -ɑːnteɪ

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.

proper noun

  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:

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: dante alighieri, inferno, dan, tan, dictionary, alighieri, dictionnaire, paradiso, purgatorio, writer, wordsmith, bard, poet, author, storyteller, scribe

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name male given name

EspañolDante
한국어단테
日本語ダンテ
中文丹蒂 Dāndì
हिन्दीदांते dānte
PortuguêsDante
FrançaisDante
ItalianoDante
ΕλληνικάΔάντης Dántis
РусскийДа́нте Dánte
العربيةدانتي
עבריתדנטה

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MLA

"Dante." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dante. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Dante. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dante

Chicago

"Dante." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dante.

BibTeX
@misc{dante_2026,
  title = {Dante},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dante},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}