excelente

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• excellente (pre-reform)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin excellentem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.seˈlẽ.t͡ʃi/

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /(i).ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, (careful pronunciation) /ɐjʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /ɐj.ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /(i).ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, (careful pronunciation) /ɐjʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /ɐj.ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /(i).ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, (careful pronunciation) /ejʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /ej.ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /(i).ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, (careful pronunciation) /ejʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /ej.ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /(i)ʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /(i).ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, (careful pronunciation) /eʃ.sɨˈlẽ.tɨ/, /e.ʃɨˈlẽ.tɨ/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɛ.sɛ.ˈlẽ.tɪ/, /i.sɛ.ˈlẽ.tɪ/
• Hyphenation: ex‧ce‧len‧te

Adjective

excelente m or f (plural excelentes)

1. excellent
   • 1905, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “Uma historia verdadeira [A true story]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, page 44:

     O marquez, cynico como a vida o tornára, era juiz excellente n’este assumpto.

     The marquess, the cynic life had turned him into, was an excellent judge of this matter.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• excellente (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin excellentem. Cognate with English excellent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /eɡsθeˈlente/ [eɣ̞s.θeˈlẽn̪.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /eɡseˈlente/ [eɣ̞.seˈlẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: ex‧ce‧len‧te

Adjective

excelente m or f (masculine and feminine plural excelentes, superlative excelentísimo)

1. excellent, brilliant, superb
2. copacetic (US slang)
3. tiptop, topnotch, top notch

Derived terms

• excelentemente

 

Related terms

• excelencia

 

Further reading

• “excelente”, 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