ganta

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English

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Etymology

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From Spanish ganta, from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang. Doublet of gantang.

Noun

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ganta (plural gantas)

  1. (Philippines, historical) A unit of volume equivalent to eight chupas.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin ganta.

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Noun

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ganta f (plural gantes)

  1. stork
    Synonym: cigonya

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French

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Verb

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ganta

  1. third-person singular past historic of ganter

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Latin

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. Cognate with Latin ānser.

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Noun

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ganta f (genitive gantae); first declension

  1. a goose of Germany

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ganta gantae
Genitive gantae gantārum
Dative gantae gantīs
Accusative gantam gantās
Ablative gantā gantīs
Vocative ganta gantae

Descendants

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  • Catalan: ganta

References

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  • ganta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ganta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang.

Noun

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ganta f (plural gantas)

  1. (Philippines, historical) a ganta

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish ganta, from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang.

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Noun

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ganta (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. ganta (unit of grain measure of approximately three liters)
    Synonym: salop
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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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gantá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. divided and cut into minute parts
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Yogad

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Noun

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ganta

  1. ganta (twenty-five of which makes one kaban)