evident

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛv.ə.dənt/

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• Hyphenation: ev‧i‧dent

evident (comparative more evident, superlative most evident)

1. Obviously true by simple observation.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obvious

   It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.

   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict‎:

     Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.

• evidently
• inevident
• self-evident
• tamper-evident

• evidence
• evidential

• “evident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “evident”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

From Italian evidente, from earlier Latin ēvidentem.

• IPA^(key): /eviˈdent/
• Rhymes: -ent
• Hyphenation: e‧vi‧dent

evident (feminine evidente)

1. (literary) evident

   Synonyms: i qartë, i dukshëm

• “evident”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Borrowed from Latin ēvidentem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βiˈðen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.viˈðent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [e.viˈðent]

evident m or f (masculine and feminine plural evidents)

1. obvious; evident

• evidentment

• evidència

• “evident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Latin ēvidēns.

• IPA^(key): [eviˈdɛnt]
• Hyphenation: evi‧dent

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evident (strong nominative masculine singular evidenter, comparative evidenter, superlative am evidentesten)

1. evident

• “evident” in Duden online
• “evident” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

evident m (feminine singular evidente, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentes)

1. obvious; evident

• French: évident

From Latin ēvidēns.

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evident m (feminine singular evidenta, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentas)

1. evident

• evidentament

• evidéncia

Borrowed from French évident, from Latin evidens.

evident m or n (feminine singular evidentă, masculine plural evidenți, feminine and neuter plural evidente)

1. obvious