# sant
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan sant, from Latin sānctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈsan]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsant]
* Rhymes: -ant

### Noun

sant m (plural sants, feminine santa)
* saint (a person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly)
** 1994, Les Festes dels sants. Material per a la celebració, Centre de Pasoral Litúrgica (publ.), page 8
    Honorar els sants és, per tant, honorar Crist.Honoring the saints is, therefore, honoring Christ.

### Adjective

sant (feminine santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santes)
* holy; saintly

#### Derived terms

* Sant Celoni
* Sant Cugat del Vallès

### References

* “sant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “sant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “sant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

### Adjective

sant m (feminine sante)
* holy, sacred

#### Related terms

* santificâ
* santimonie

### Noun

sant m (plural sants)
* saint

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sãt/

### Etymology 1

From French centre (“centre”).

#### Noun

sant
* centre

##### Related terms

* Sant
* santral

### Etymology 2

From French senteur (“scent”).

#### Verb

sant
* to scent

#### Noun

sant
* scent

## Ladin
### Alternative forms

* sent

### Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

### Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sanc, feminine plural santes)
* sacred

## Middle English
### Noun

sant
* (Northern) Alternative form of seynt

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Adjective

sant
* neuter singular of sann

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adjective

sant
* neuter singular of sann

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)
* holy; sacred

#### Derived terms

* Sant Benaset
* Sant Blai
* Sant Danís
* Sant Geli

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* *samt

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, whence also Old Saxon sand, Old Dutch sant, Old English sand, Old Norse sandr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos.

### Noun

sant n
* sand

#### Derived terms

* santstein

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: sant; sampt, sambt
** German: Sand
** Luxembourgish: Sand
** Vilamovian: zaond
** Yiddish: זאַמד (zamd)

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* san
* sanct

### Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

### Noun

sant m (oblique plural sants, nominative singular sants, nominative plural sant)
* a saint

### Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)
* sacred; holy

#### Descendants

* Catalan: sant

## Old Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sant/

### Adjective

sant m (plural santos)
* Apocopic form of santo.
** c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v:en ebrõ regno dd̃ .ij. ãnos. ebrõ a agora nõbre ſãt abraam.David ruled over Hebron for two years. Hebron now has the name Saint Abraham.

#### Descendants

* Spanish: san

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁆 (Brahmi script)
* सन्त् (Devanagari script)
* সন্ত্ (Bengali script)
* සන‍්ත් (Sinhalese script)
* သန္တ် or သၼ္တ် or သၼ်တ် (Burmese script)
* สนฺตฺ or สันต (Thai script)
* ᩈᨶ᩠ᨲ᩺ (Tai Tham script)
* ສນ຺ຕ຺ or ສັນຕ (Lao script)
* សន្ត៑ (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄴 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

sant
* alternative citation form of santa (“being”)

### References

* Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “sant”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Swedish
### Adjective

sant
* indefinite neuter singular of sann

### Anagrams

* stan

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh sant, from Proto-Brythonic *sant, from Vulgar Latin santus, from Latin sānctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sant/
* Rhymes: -ant

### Noun

sant m (plural saint or seintiau, feminine santes, not mutable)
* male saint

#### Usage notes

* The plural form saint is now only used to refer to living people.
* When used as a title, sant comes before the name of a male saint, e.g. Sant Luc (“Saint Luke”), but can come after the names of certain Celtic saints, e.g. Dewi Sant (“Saint David”). For the titles of female saints, santes is used, often preceded by the definite article y, e.g. y Santes Fair (“Saint Mary”). The variants san and sain are also found occasionally, often in place names, e.g. Llansanffraid, Sain Ffagan (“St Fagans”).

#### Derived terms

* nawddsant
* santaidd
* santdod

#### Related terms

* sain (“saint”)
* san (“saint”)

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## Wolof
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sant (definite form sant wi)
* last name

### References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 5