cliente

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kli.jɑ̃t/

• Audio:

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Noun

cliente f (plural clientes)

1. female equivalent of client

Further reading

• “cliente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology

From Latin clientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliˈɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: cli‧èn‧te

• Audio:

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Noun

cliente m or f by sense (plural clienti)

1. customer
2. guest (in a hotel)
3. client
4. regular (of a bar etc.)

Further reading

• cliente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• lectine

Noun

cliente

1. ablative singular of cliēns

Alternative forms

• Western: client
• Eastern: clienti

Pronunciation

• Western: IPA^(key): /kliˈɛnt/
• Eastern: IPA^(key): /kliˈɛnte/, /kliˈɛnti/

Noun

cliente f pl

1. feminine plural of client

Etymology

From Latin clientem, Alteration of cluēns, present active participle of clueō (“to be called, to be named, to be esteemed”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ẽtɨ, -ẽt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: cli‧en‧te

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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Noun

cliente m or f by sense (plural clientes)

1. customer, client (one who purchases or receives a product or service)

   Synonyms: freguês, usuário

Further reading

• “cliente” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cliente”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cliente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clientem, based on clueō (“to be called, to be named, to be esteemed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkljente/ [ˈkljẽn̪.t̪e], /kliˈente/ [kliˈẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: clien‧te, cli‧en‧te

Noun

cliente m (plural clientes, feminine cliente or clienta, feminine plural clientes or clientas)

1. client
2. customer
3. (computing) client

Further reading

• “cliente”, 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