Meanings
proper noun
- 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:
2001 July 29, R. W. B. Lewis, “'Dante'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022
Origin
- ItalianDante
- ItalianDante
- EnglishDante
Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.
More words from Italian
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic دانتي
- دانتيmale given name
Bulgarian Да́нте
- Да́нте (Dánte)male given name
Chinese Mandarin 丹蒂
- 丹蒂 (Dāndì)male given name
Dutch Dante
- Dantemale given name
French Dante
- Dantemale given name
Greek Δάντης
- Δάντης (Dántis)male given name
Hebrew דנטה
- דנטהmale given name
Hindi दांते
- दांते (dānte)male given name
Hungarian Dante
- Dantemale given name
Italian Dante
- Dantemale given name
Japanese ダンテ
- ダンテmale given name
Korean 단테
- 단테male given name
Lithuanian Dantė
- Dantėmale given name
Polish Dante
- Dantemale given name
Portuguese Dante
- Dantemale given name
Russian Да́нте
- Да́нте (Dánte)male given name
Spanish Dante
- Dantemale given name
Thai ดันเต
- ดันเตmale given name
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Dante
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Cite this entry
APA
Dante. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dante
MLA
“Dante.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dante. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dante,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dante.
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