FromMiddle English-ant,-aunt, partly fromOld French-ant, fromLatin-āns; and partly (in adjectival derivations) continuingMiddle English-ant, a variant of-and,-end, fromOld English-ende(present participle ending), see-and.

-ant

1. (now sciences, chiefly medicine) Theagent noun derived fromverb.

   serve →servant

2. Anadjective corresponding to anoun in-ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (thecondition orprocess described by the noun)".
3. 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)".

   ascend →ascendant

   err →errant.

4. Alternative form of-and

   blatant,blicant;flippant,old-farrant

• Many words in-ant were not actually coined in English but rather borrowed directly from Old French, Middle French or Modern French.

• -ance

• TNA,TAN,NTA,Nat,NAT,ATN,nat,Tan,tan,Nat.

FromLatin-ans.

• IPA^(key): [ˈanˀd]

-ant c

1. Formsagent nouns, mostly from verbs of Romance or Latin origin
2. something that is or happens in a certain way(adjectives. E.g.arrogant)

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• IPA^(key): /ɑnt/

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-ant m (plural-anten,feminine-ante)

1. appended to the stem of a verb, it yields a noun which signifies the subject who performs the action of that verb (seeagent noun)

Inherited fromOld French-ant, fromLatin-antem,-entem. CompareItalian-ante,-ente,Spanish-ante,-ente,-iente.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃/

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-ant(invariable)

1. -ing;suffix denoting thegerund andpresent participle of a verb

   ‎jouer(“to play”) + ‎-ant → ‎jouant(“playing”)

-ant (feminine-ante,masculine plural-ants,feminine plural-antes)

1. -ant,-ing;forms adjectives out of verbs
2. (rare)formsadjectives from words other than verbs

   ‎abracadabra + ‎-ant → ‎abracadabrant

-ant m (plural-ants,feminine-ante)

1. -er;forms nouns out of verbs

• French present participles are used, chiefly in literary style, to replacerelative clauses. In this case they arenot inflected for number and gender:une femmeaimant ses enfants(“a woman loving her children”), equivalent toune femme qui aime ses enfants(“a woman who loves her children”).
• Some present participles can also be used as actual adjectives. In this case they are inflected:une femme aimante(“a loving/caring woman”). Such adjectival uses arelexicalised, however, and (unlike in English) not all participles allow it.

• -amment
• -ance

• -ent
• -ans(learned terms only, usually neuter)

FromMiddle High German-ant, fromLatin-ans, -antis, in part throughOld French-ant.

• IPA^(key): /ant/

-ant m (weak,genitive-anten,plural-anten,feminine-antin)

2. Forms agent nouns, mostly from verbs of Romance or Latin origin.

   ‎liefern(“to supply”) + ‎-ant → ‎Lieferant(“supplier”)

• This ending is semi-productive, see e.g.Asylant,Antifant.
• This ending rarely also occurs in the neuter gender, see e.g.Antiozonant.

• “-ant” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “-ant” inDuden online

From-a-(linking vowel) +‎-n(instantaneous suffix) +‎-t(causative suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ɒnt]
• Rhymes:-ɒnt

-ant

1. (instantaneous suffix)Added to a stem - often anonomatopoeia - to form averb expressing aninstantaneous action.

   pillant(“to glance”)

• (instantaneous suffix) Variants:

  -ant is added to back-vowel words

  -ent is added to front-vowel words

• -int
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

FromProto-Italic*-ānt, fromProto-Indo-European*-eh₂yónti.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈant/,[ˈän̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈant/,[ˈän̪t̪]

-ant

1. third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative of-ō(first conjugation)

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-ant

1. used to form the present participle of verbs

FromLatin-āns,-ēns.

-ant

1. used to form the present participle of verbs

• -ance/-anche

• English:-ant
• French:-ant

Borrowed fromFrench-ant.

• IPA^(key): /ant/

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• Rhymes:-ant
• Syllabification:[please specify syllabification manually]

-ant m pers

1. -ant(agent noun derived from verb)

   ‎kurs + ‎-ant → ‎kursant

• -ant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ant/

Cognate withCornish-ans.

• -iant

-ant m (plural-annau)

1. show the action of a verb or its result,-tion,-ment

   ‎maddau(“to forgive”) + ‎-ant → ‎maddeuant(“forgiveness”)

-ant

1. (literary)verb suffix for thethird-personpluralpresentindicative/future

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