-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.

-ant

1. (now sciences, chiefly medicine) The agent noun derived from verb.

   serve → servant

2. An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process 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.

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• IPA^(key): /ɑnt/

• Audio:

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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 (see agent noun)

Inherited from Old French -ant, from Latin -antem, -entem. Compare Italian -ante, -ente, Spanish -ante, -ente, -iente.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃/

• Audio:

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-ant (invariable)

1. -ing; suffix denoting the gerund and present 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) forms adjectives 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 replace relative clauses. In this case they are not inflected for number and gender: une femme aimant ses enfants (“a woman loving her children”), equivalent to une 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”). This adjectival use is lexicalised, however, which means that it is common only for certain participles, not all (unlike English).

• -amment
• -ance

From Middle High German -ant, from Old French -ant; and also directly from Latin -antis, -ans.

• 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.

• -ans (rare, unproductive synonym from the same source)

• “-ant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “-ant” in Duden 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 an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing an instantaneous 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

From Proto-Italic *-ānt, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yónti.

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

-ant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of -ō (first conjugation)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-ant

1. used to form the present participle of verbs

From Latin -āns, -ēns.

-ant

1. used to form the present participle of verbs

• -ance/-anche

• English: -ant
• French: -ant

Borrowed from French -ant, from Old French -ant, from Latin -āns, -ēns.

• IPA^(key): /ant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: ant

-ant m pers

1. -ant (agent noun derived from verb)

   ‎kurs + ‎-ant → ‎kursant

• -ant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ant/

Cognate with Cornish -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 the third-person plural present indicative/future