travesti

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.vɛs.ti/

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travesti m (plural travestis)

1. transvestite

• travestissement
• travestisme

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

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

1. past participle of travestir

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

• vitrâtes

travesti

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

• traviste

Unadapted borrowing from French travesti.

travesti f or (usually offensive) m (plural travestis)

1. transvestite; cross-dresser (person, almost always a man, who wears clothing of the opposite sex)

• The word travesti is sometimes used in the masculine form but this is almost always considered offensive.
• While the word literally means cross-dresser it is almost never used to refer to AFABs who dress as men.

• travestir

From French travestir.

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

1. to disguise

From French travesti.

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

travesti m or f (plural travestis)

1. transvestite, cross-dresser

   Synonym: travestí

travesti f (plural travestis)

1. (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) trans woman

   Synonym: mujer trans

• “travesti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

travesti c

1. travesty

• parodi
• pastisch

• travestera

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

From French travesti.

travesti (definite accusative travestiyi, plural travestiler)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive) transvestite