travesti

travesti

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish travesti and Portuguese travesti, themselves both from French travesti. Doublet of travesty.

Noun

travesti (plural travestis)

  1. A member of a Latin American gender role, variously construed as a cross-dressing men, a third gender or a trans woman.

Related terms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁa.vɛs.ti/

Noun

travesti m (plural travestis)

  1. transvestite

Derived terms

  • travestissement
  • travestisme

Descendants

  • Greek: τραβεστί m or f (travestí)
  • Portuguese: travesti m or f
  • Spanish: travesti m or f
  • Turkish: travesti

Participle

travesti (feminine travestie, masculine plural travestis, feminine plural travesties)

  1. past participle of travestir

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • vitrâtes

Galician

Verb

travesti

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of travestir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Italian

Verb

travesti

  1. inflection of travestire:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • traviste

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French travesti.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i, -ɛʃti
  • Hyphenation: tra‧ves‧ti

Noun

travesti m or f by sense (plural travestis)

  1. transvestite; cross-dresser (person who wears clothing of the opposite sex)
Related terms
  • travestir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tra‧ves‧ti

Verb

travesti

  1. inflection of travestir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French travestir.

Verb

a travesti (third-person singular present travestește, past participle travestit) 4th conjugation

  1. to disguise

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French travesti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾaˈbesti/ [t̪ɾaˈβ̞es.t̪i]
  • Rhymes: -esti
  • Syllabification: tra‧ves‧ti

Noun

travesti m or f by sense (plural travestis)

  1. transvestite, cross-dresser
    Synonym: travestí

Noun

travesti f (plural travestis)

  1. (Rioplatense, Chile, Andes) trans woman
    Synonym: mujer trans

Related terms

Further reading

  • “travesti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Travestie, from English travesty, from French travestir. Doublet of transvestit.

Noun

travesti c

  1. travesty

Declension

Synonyms

  • parodi
  • pastisch

Related terms

  • travestera

References

  • travesti in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • travesti in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • travesti in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

From French travesti.

Noun

travesti (definite accusative travestiyi, plural travestiler)

  1. (slang, derogatory, offensive) transvestite

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