xente

From Latin gēns, gentem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃente/ [ˈʃẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: xen‧te

xente f (plural xentes)

1. people

• gente (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese gente, from Latin gēns, gentem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃente/ [ˈʃen̪.t̪ɪ], /ˈʃɛnte/ [ˈʃɛn̪.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ente, -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: xen‧te

xente f (plural xentes)

1. people
2. nation

   Synonyms: nación, pobo

3. person

   Synonym: persoa

   Podes afiuzar nel, é boa xente. ― You can trust him, he is a good person. (literally, “You can trust him, he's good people.”)

• xente bafúa (“mob, rabble; scum”)
• xente do mar (“mariners”)
• xente nova (“young ones”)
• xentiña
• xentuza

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “gente”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “gente”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xente”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “xente”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xente”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “xente”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Latin gēns, gentem. Compare Italian gente.

xente m (plural xenti)

1. alternative form of zente