-ant
suffix/ənt/ · IN /enʈ/
Etymology 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”).
Medicine, Sciences Morpheme The agent noun derived from verb.
- serve → servant
Morpheme An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process described by the noun)".
Morpheme 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.
Alternative, Morpheme Alternative form of -and.
- blatant, blicant; flippant, old-farrant
- Related terms
- -ance