mordant

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːdn̩t/
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• General-American: /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/
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• homophone: mordent
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)dənt
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• CMU ARPABET: M AO1 R D AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French mordant, from Latin mordeō. Doublet of mordent.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: язвителен (jazvitelen) — biting or caustic
• Finnish: pureva — biting or caustic
• Finnish: julma — biting or caustic
• Finnish: pisteliäs — biting or caustic
• French: mordant — biting or caustic
• German: beißend — biting or caustic
• German: bissig — biting or caustic
• German: sarkastisch — biting or caustic
• Greek: δηκτικός (diktikós) — biting or caustic
• Greek: καυστικός (kafstikós) — biting or caustic
• Italian: mordente — biting or caustic
• Italian: caustico — biting or caustic
• Italian: sarcastico — biting or caustic
• Italian: mordace — biting or caustic
• Korean: 신랄한 (sillalhan) — biting or caustic
• Polish: żrący — biting or caustic
• Spanish: mordaz — biting or caustic
• Welsh: brathog — biting or caustic
• Welsh: deifiol — biting or caustic
• Bulgarian: байц (bajc) — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Catalan: mordent — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Finnish: puretin — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• French: mordant — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• German: Beize — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Gujarati: રંગરખું (raṅgarkhũ) — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Italian: mordente — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Korean: 매염제 (maeyeomje) — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Māori: waitumu — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Māori: tūmau kano — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Polish: zaprawa farbiarska — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Polish: zaprawa barwierska — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Serbo-Croatian: močilo — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Spanish: mordiente — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Spanish: mordaz — a substance used to facilitate dye fixing
• Bulgarian: байцвам (bajcvam) — to subject to a mordant
• Catalan: mordentar — to subject to a mordant
• Finnish: purettaa — to subject to a mordant
• French: mordancer — to subject to a mordant
• French: amordancer — to subject to a mordant
• Italian: mordenzare — to subject to a mordant
• Polish: używać zaprawy farbiarskiej — to subject to a mordant
• Polish: użyć zaprawy farbiarskiej — to subject to a mordant
• Welsh: brathliw — to subject to a mordant
• Welsh: mordant — to subject to a mordant