edificante

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.di.fiˈkan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: e‧di‧fi‧càn‧te

Adjective

edificante m or f by sense (plural edificanti)

1. edifying

Derived terms

• edificantemente

Participle

edificante m or f by sense (plural edificanti)

1. present participle of edificare

Further reading

• edificante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• deificante

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aedificantis. By surface analysis, edificar +‎ -ante.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.d͡ʒi.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.d͡ʒi.fiˈkɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.d͡ʒi.fiˈkɐ̃.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.di.fiˈkɐ̃.tɨ/ [i.ði.fiˈkɐ̃.tɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃t͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: e‧di‧fi‧can‧te

Adjective

edificante m or f (plural edificantes)

1. edifying

Further reading

• “edificante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “edificante”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “edificante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From edificar +‎ -ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /edifiˈkante/ [e.ð̞i.fiˈkãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: e‧di‧fi‧can‧te

Adjective

edificante m or f (masculine and feminine plural edificantes)

1. uplifting, edifying

Further reading

• “edificante”, 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