-ant
/ənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.86 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
suffix
The agent noun derived from verb.
suffix
An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process described by the noun)".
suffix
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)".
suffix
Alternative form of -and.
Example Sentences
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”).