Alicante

• alicant (archaic)
• aligant (archaic)
• allegant (archaic)
• alligant (archaic)

From Spanish Alicante.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌælɪˈkænti/, (dated) /ˌælɪˈkænt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑləˈkɑnteɪ/

Alicante

1. A province of Valencia, Spain.
2. A city, the capital of the province of Alicante, Spain.
3. a kind of wine grown from the Alicante province.

• analcite, laitance

From Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).

• Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante

1. a surname

• Hyphenation: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante

1. Alicante (a province and city in Valencia, Spain)

From Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Leukante (Local Latin), ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”). Originally named Ἄκρα Λευκή (Ákra Leukḗ) or Λευκή Ἄκρα (Leukḗ Ákra, “white summit”) by Phocaean Greeks.

• IPA^(key): /aliˈkante/ [a.liˈkãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante ?

1. Alicante (a province of Valencia, Spain; capital: Alicante)
2. Alicante (a city in Alicante, Spain)

• → Cebuano: Alicante
• → English: Alicante
• → Tagalog: Alicante

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

Borrowed from Spanish Alicante, from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Vulgar Latin Leukante, ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaliˈkante/ [ʔɐ.lɪˈxan.tɛ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: A‧li‧can‧te

Alicante (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜃᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. a surname from Spanish

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alicante is the 3,258th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 3,931 individuals.