-ant en · X
Pronunciation
- [ë̞ɳʈ] (India)
- ĕnt (India)
- /enʈ/ (India)
- ənt
- /ənt/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant From Middle English -ant, -aunt, partly from Old French -ant, from Latin -āns; and partly (in adjectival derivations) continuing Middle English -ant, a variant of -and, -end, from Old English -ende (present participle ending), see -and. False cognate of Malay and Indonesian -an (and so all its Austronesian cognates), and Arabic ان (“adjective forming suffix”).
Meanings
-
(morpheme) The agent noun derived from verb.
serve → servant
- (morpheme) An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process described by the noun)".
-
(morpheme) An adjective derived from a verb, having the senses of: (a) "doing (the verbal action)", and/or (b) "prone/tending to do (the verbal action)".
err → errant
ascend → ascendant
-
(alt-of, alternative, morpheme) Alternative form of -and.
alt of -and
blatant, blicant; flippant, old-farrant