norte

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norte m

1. north

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “norte”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Borrowed from French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

norte m (plural nortes)

1. north

• N
• norde

Attested since the 14th century. Borrowed from Middle French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɔɾtɪ]

norte m (plural nortes)

1. (uncountable) north (cardinal direction)

   Synonym: setentrión

2. (uncountable) the northern portion of a territory or region
3. (uncountable) the north wind
4. (countable) a northern; a wind blowing from the north

• (north): sur
• (northern portion): sur

• ábrego
• leste
• nordés
• occidente
• sur

• “norte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “norte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “norte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “norte” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• N

Borrowed from French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔh.ti/
• Hyphenation: nor‧te

norte m (plural nortes)

1. north (compass point)

• (compass points) ponto cardeal;

noroeste	norte	nordeste
oeste poente ocidente		leste este nascente oriente
sudoeste	sul	sudeste

• nortenho

• setentrional

Borrowed from French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoɾte/ [ˈnoɾ.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -oɾte
• Syllabification: nor‧te

norte (plural nortes)

1. north, northern

norte m (plural nortes)

1. (uncountable) north (compass point)

   Vamos al norte.

   We're going north.

   Synonym: septentrión

   Antonym: sur

2. (uncountable) north wind

   Entrada la noche, el norte sopla.

   Late at night, the north wind blows.

3. (countable) guide, inspiration
   • 2003, Luis Beresaluze Galbis, Trinidad de la palabra:

     El rigor y la exigencia son parte de mis nortes.

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4. (countable) goal, objective
   • 2007, Identidades‎:

     Reunir en un solo espacio la obra gráfica que nos ilustra el desarrollo del movimiento de mujeres en Puerto Rico fue uno de mis nortes cuando asumí la dirección del Proyecto de Estudios de las Mujeres de la Universidad de Puerto Rico […]

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   Synonym: meta

• este
• oeste
• occidente
• oriente

• boreal
• septentrional

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

Borrowed from Spanish norte, French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

• Hyphenation: nor‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈnoɾte/, [ˈnoɾ.te]

norte

1. north (compass point)

   Synonym: hilaga

• Norte
• panorte

• “norte”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018