suffix
Meaning 1
The agent noun derived from verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- serve → servant
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
-ant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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ənt
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/ənt/
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India: ĕnt
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India: /enʈ/
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India: [ë̞ɳʈ]
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homophone: -ent
suffix
Meaning 2
An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process described by the noun)".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
suffix
Meaning 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)".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- ascend → ascendant
- err → errant.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
suffix
Meaning 4
Alternative form of -and.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Examples
- blatant, blicant; flippant, old-farrant
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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”).