Ente
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German ente, confluence of (1.) the plural and oblique singular of ant and (2.) the Old High German variant enita, both from older anut, from Proto-West Germanic *anad. Cognate with Dutch eend, dialectal English ennet.
The sense “canard” (mid-19th c.) is a calque of French canard, but also ties in with the expression blaue Enten (“lies, humbug”, literally “blue ducks”, since 15th c.).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Ente f (genitive Ente, plural Enten, diminutive Entchen n or Entlein n)
- duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
- (especially) mallard; the most common duck species in the area, thought of as the typical duck
- (informal) Citroën 2CV (an economy car produced by the French company Citroën)
- (medicine) bedpan (bedpan for holding urine)
- (journalism) canard (false or misleading report)
- Synonyms: Falschmeldung, Zeitungsente
- einer Ente aufsitzen ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 2022 December 22, Thomas Abeltshauser, “Balzac-Verfilmung „Verlorene Illusionen“: Als Fake News noch Enten waren”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN:
- Fake News etwa, die hier noch klassisch „Enten“ heißen, auch dafür gibt es eine Erklärung.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Ente [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Ente” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Ente” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Ente” in Duden online
Ente on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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[edit]Ente
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