# galant
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).

### Adjective

galant
* (historical, music, art) Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
* (music) Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

#### Derived terms

* Galante

#### See also

* rococo

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French galant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ɡəˈlan]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ɡəˈlant]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ɡaˈlant]

### Adjective

galant m or f (masculine and feminine plural galants)
* gallant, charming, flirtatious
* (colloquial) remarkable, excellent

#### Usage notes

* In the sense of "excellent", galant precedes the noun it modifies, e.g. un galant jove ― a remarkable young man.

#### Derived terms

* galà
* galantejar
* galanteria

### Noun

galant m (plural galants)
* gallant
* male lead, hero

### Further reading

* “galant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

Present participle of Old French galer, from Frankish *wala (“well”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(h₁)- (“to choose, wish”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡa.lɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Participle

galant
* present participle of galer

### Adjective

galant (feminine galante, masculine plural galants, feminine plural galantes)
* gallant, courteous, gentlemanly
* flirtatious, amorous; racy

#### Derived terms

* femme galante
* galanterie
* rendez-vous galant

#### Related terms

* gaulois (“bawdy”)

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: galant, galà
* → English: gallant
* → German: galant
* → Romanian: galant
* → Russian: галантный (galantnyj)
** → Georgian: გალანტური (galanṭuri)
* → Spanish: galante, galán

### Noun

galant m (plural galants)
* (archaic or humorous) suitor, admirer

### Further reading

* “galant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* glanât

## Gallo
### Etymology

From Old French galant (“brave; noble; chivalrous”).

### Noun

galant m (plural galants)
* lover

## German
### Etymology

From French galant.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ant

### Adjective

galant (strong nominative masculine singular galanter, comparative galanter, superlative am galantesten)
* gallant

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “galant” in Duden online
* “galant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German galant. Compare Masovian Polish galanty.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡa.lant/
* Rhymes: -alant
* Syllabification: ga‧lant

### Adjective

galant (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)
* gallant

### Further reading

* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “szarmancki”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “szarmancki”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French galant (“brave; noble; chivalrous”).

### Noun

galant m (plural galants)
* (Jersey) boyfriend

## Old French
### Verb

galant
* present participle of galer

### Adjective

galant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular galant or galante)
* brave; noble; chivalrous

#### Related terms

* gale

#### Descendants

* → Middle English: galant, galaunt
** English: gallant, gallaunt (obsolete)
* Middle French: galant
** French: galant (see there for further descendants)
* → Gallo: galant
* → Norman: galant

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French galant.

### Adjective

galant m or n (feminine singular galantă, masculine plural galanți, feminine and neuter plural galante)
* gallant

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Adjective

galant (comparative galantare, superlative galantast)
* gallant, courteous, flirtatious

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### Adverb

galant (not comparable)
* splendidly, swimmingly
    Det där fixade du galantYou did that splendidly
    Det gick galantIt went swimmingly

### See also

* ridderlig (“chivalrous”)

### References

* galant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* galant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* galant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)