occidente
See also: Occidente
Galician
    
    
Etymology
    
Borrowed from Latin occidēns, occidēntem (“the west”).
Noun
    
occidente m (uncountable)
- west (cardinal direction)
- the western portion of a territory or region
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Italian
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Latin occidentem, present participle of occidō (“to fall down; pass away”), in reference to the setting of the Sun.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ot.t͡ʃiˈdɛn.te/
- Rhymes: -ɛnte
- Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧dèn‧te
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See also
    
- (compass points) punto cardinale;
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Latin
    
    Etymology 1
    
Form of the verb occidō (“I fall down; I die”).
Etymology 2
    
Form of the verb occīdō (“I cut down; I kill”).
Portuguese
    
    Noun
    
occidente m (plural occidentes)
- Obsolete spelling of ocidente (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).
Spanish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Latin occidens, occidentem.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): (Spain) /oɡθiˈdente/ [oɣ̞.θiˈð̞ẽn̪.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /oɡsiˈdente/ [oɣ̞.siˈð̞ẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: oc‧ci‧den‧te
Noun
    
occidente m (plural occidentes)
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Further reading
    
- “occidente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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