cliente
التعريفات والمعاني
== French ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /kli.jɑ̃t/
=== Noun ===
cliente f (plural clientes)
female equivalent of client
=== Further reading ===
“cliente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
== Italian ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin clientem.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /kliˈɛn.te/
Rhymes: -ɛnte
Hyphenation: cli‧èn‧te
IPA(key): (regional) /kliˈen.te/
Rhymes: -ente
Hyphenation: cli‧én‧te
=== Noun ===
cliente m or f by sense (plural clienti)
customer
guest (in a hotel)
client
regular (of a bar etc.)
==== Related terms ====
clientela
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
cliente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
=== Anagrams ===
lectine
== Latin ==
=== Noun ===
cliente
ablative singular of cliēns
== Lombard ==
=== Alternative forms ===
client (Western)
clienti (Eastern)
=== Pronunciation ===
(Western) IPA(key): /kliˈɛnt/
(Eastern) IPA(key): /kliˈɛnte/, /kliˈɛnti/
=== Noun ===
cliente f pl
feminine plural of client
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin clientem, alteration of cluēns, present active participle of clueō (“to be called, to be named, to be esteemed”).
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ẽtɨ
Hyphenation: cli‧en‧te
=== Noun ===
cliente m or f by sense (plural clientes)
customer, client (one who purchases or receives a product or service)
Synonyms: freguês, usuário
==== Derived terms ====
clientela
=== Further reading ===
“cliente”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“cliente” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
“cliente”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
“cliente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin clientem, based on clueō (“to be called, to be named, to be esteemed”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈkljente/ [ˈkljẽn̪.t̪e], /kliˈente/ [kliˈẽn̪.t̪e]
Rhymes: -ente
Syllabification: clien‧te, cli‧en‧te
=== Noun ===
cliente m (plural clientes, feminine cliente or clienta, feminine plural clientes or clientas)
client
customer
(computing) client
Antonym: servidor
==== Usage notes ====
Historically, and still more common currently, this noun has had the same form for both genders ("el cliente" and "la cliente"; "los clientes" and "las clientes").
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“cliente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025