durante

See also: Durante

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du‧ran‧te

Adjective

durante

1. long-lasting

Galician

Preposition

durante

1. during

Ido

Verb

durante

1. adverbial present active participle of durar

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Preposition

durante

1. during

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈran.te/

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• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: du‧ràn‧te

Preposition

durante

1. during
2. in the course of

Participle

durante (plural duranti)

1. present participle of durare

Ladino

Preposition

durante (Latin spelling)

1. during

Latin

Participle

dūrante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of dūrāns

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /duˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /duˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /du.ˈɾɐ̃.ti/
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: du‧ran‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin dūrantem (“enduring”), from dūrō (“last, endure”), from dūrus (“hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *drew- (“hard, fest”).

Preposition

durante

2. during (for all of a given time interval)

   O preço das maçãs subiu durante a guerra.

   The price of apples rose during the war.

4. during (at any point within a given time interval)

   Um aluno dormiu durante a aula.

   A student fell asleep during class.

6. for (introduces the duration of an occurrence)

   Corri durante vinte minutos hoje cedo.

   I ran for twenty minutes this morning.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:durante.

Synonyms

• (for): por

Related terms

• durabilidade
• duradouro
• durar
• durável
• dureza
• duro

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian durante.

Noun

durante m (plural durantes)

1. a type of glossy wool fabric

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dūrantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈɾante/ [d̪uˈɾãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: du‧ran‧te

Preposition

durante

1. during, in, over

   Durante el verano nos gusta ir al parque acuático.

   In the summer we like to go to the water park.

   durante la noche ― overnight

2. for (as a duration)

   Acabo de enterarme de que me ha estado mintiendo durante años.

   I just found out that he's been lying to me for years.

Further reading

• “durante”, 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