Andes

From Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua anti (“east”).

• enPR: ănʹdēz, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.diːz/

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the Andes

1. Synonym of Andes Mountains

• Sedan, Desna, snead, Snead, Sande, Deans, deans, nades, sedan, Adens, Denas, saden, Sedna, Danes, Neads, DNase

Borrowed from Spanish Andes, from Quechua anti (“east”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈan.dəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈan.des]

Andes m pl (plural only)

1. Andes (a mountain range in South America)

• andí

Borrowed from Spanish Andes, or alternatively Latin Andes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.dɛs/, /ˈɑn.dəs/

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• Hyphenation: An‧des

de Andes pl

1. the Andes [from late 16th c.]
   • 1596, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien 1579-1592, Vol. 3, C.P. Burger & F.W.T. Hunger (eds.), Martinus Nijhoff (publ. 1934), page 176.

     Soo zijn dan die grensen oost ende zuyden Argyropolis, nae den nederganck die zuyder Zee, nae't noorden die Province Pastoa, dit landt wordt afghedeelt in driederley deelen, in Planitiem, Sierras, Andes, dat is in even ofte plat landt aen die Zee ligghende, in berghen ofte in berghachtighe landen, die midden door't landt strecken, ende in Peru over het gheberchte nae't oosten.

     The borders are like this: to the east and south Argyropolis (name of a river), to the descent to the south the sea, to the north the Province Pastoa, this land is divided into three parts, into Planitiem, Sierras, Andes, that is into level or flat land lying next to the sea, into mountains or into mountainous lands, that range across the middle of the lands, and into Pery over the mountains to the east.

• andesvos

• danse

Calque of Spanish Andes.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃d/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

les Andes f pl (plural only)

1. Synonym of cordillère des Andes (“Andes”)

• danse, dansé

Andes m pl

1. Andes

• andino

• “Andes”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From *ande-

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈan.deːs/, [ˈän̪d̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.des/, [ˈän̪d̪es]

Andēs m pl (genitive Andium); third declension

1. alternative form of Andecāvī (a Gallic tribe in the region of present-day Anjou)

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

• “Andes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua andi (“high crest”)

Andēs f pl (genitive Andium); third declension

1. (New Latin) Andes (a mountain range in South America).

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

Borrowed from Spanish Andes, from Quechua andi.

• Hyphenation: An‧des

Andes m pl

1. Andes (a mountain range in South America)

• andino

Borrowed from Quechua anti (“east”). More at Andes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈandes/ [ˈãn̪.d̪es]
• Rhymes: -andes
• Syllabification: An‧des

los Andes m pl

1. the Andes