# -ant
## English
### 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.

### Suffix

-ant
* (now sciences, chiefly medicine) The agent noun derived from verb.
    serve → servant
* An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process described by the noun)".
* 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 form of -and
    blatant, blicant; flippant, old-farrant

#### Usage notes

* Many words in -ant were not actually coined in English but rather borrowed directly from Old French, Middle French or Modern French.

#### Related terms

* -ance

### Anagrams

* TNA, TAN, NTA, Nat, NAT, ATN, nat, Tan, tan, Nat.

## Danish
### Etymology

From Latin -ans.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈanˀd]

### Suffix

-ant c
* Forms agent nouns, mostly from verbs of Romance or Latin origin
* something that is or happens in a certain way (adjectives. E.g. arrogant)

#### Derived terms
## Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑnt/
* Audio:(file)

### Suffix

-ant m (plural -anten, feminine -ante)
* appended to the stem of a verb, it yields a noun which signifies the subject who performs the action of that verb (see agent noun)

#### Derived terms
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French -ant, from Latin -antem, -entem. Compare Italian -ante, -ente, Spanish -ante, -ente, -iente.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Suffix

-ant (invariable)
* -ing; suffix denoting the gerund and present participle of a verb
    ‎jouer (“to play”) + ‎-ant → ‎jouant (“playing”)

### Suffix

-ant (feminine -ante, masculine plural -ants, feminine plural -antes)
* -ant, -ing; forms adjectives out of verbs
* (rare) forms adjectives from words other than verbs
    ‎abracadabra + ‎-ant → ‎abracadabrant

### Suffix

-ant m (plural -ants, feminine -ante)
* -er; forms nouns out of verbs

#### Usage notes

* French present participles are used, chiefly in literary style, to replace relative clauses. In this case they are not inflected for number and gender: une femme aimant ses enfants (“a woman loving her children”), equivalent to une femme qui aime ses enfants (“a woman who loves her children”).
* Some present participles can also be used as actual adjectives. In this case they are inflected: une femme aimante (“a loving/caring woman”). Such adjectival uses are lexicalised, however, and (unlike in English) not all participles allow it.

#### Related terms

* -amment
* -ance

## German
### Alternative forms

* -ent
* -ans (learned terms only, usually neuter)

### Etymology

From Middle High German -ant, from Latin -ans, -antis, in part through Old French -ant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ant/

### Suffix

-ant m (weak, genitive -anten, plural -anten, feminine -antin)
* Forms agent nouns, mostly from verbs of Romance or Latin origin.
    ‎liefern (“to supply”) + ‎-ant → ‎Lieferant (“supplier”)

#### Usage notes

* This ending is semi-productive, see e.g. Asylant, Antifant.
* This ending rarely also occurs in the neuter gender, see e.g. Antiozonant.

#### Derived terms
### Further reading

* “-ant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “-ant” in Duden online

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From -a- (linking vowel) +‎ -n (instantaneous suffix) +‎ -t (causative suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɒnt]
* Rhymes: -ɒnt

### Suffix

-ant
* (instantaneous suffix) Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing an instantaneous action.
    pillant (“to glance”)

#### Usage notes

* (instantaneous suffix) Variants:
    -ant is added to back-vowel words
    -ent is added to front-vowel words

#### See also

* -int
* Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

### References

* ↑ -ant in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *-ānt, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yónti.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈant/, [ˈän̪t̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈant/, [ˈän̪t̪]

### Suffix

-ant
* third-person plural present active indicative of -ō (first conjugation)

#### Descendants

* Old Galician-Portuguese: -an
** Galician: -an
** Portuguese: -am
* Spanish: -an

## Middle French
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Suffix

-ant
* used to form the present participle of verbs

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin -āns, -ēns.

### Suffix

-ant
* used to form the present participle of verbs

#### Related terms

* -ance/-anche

#### Descendants

* English: -ant
* French: -ant

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French -ant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ant/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ant
* Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

### Suffix

-ant m pers
* -ant (agent noun derived from verb)
    ‎kurs + ‎-ant → ‎kursant

#### Derived terms
### Further reading

* -ant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ant/

### Etymology 1

Cognate with Cornish -ans.

#### Alternative forms

* -iant

#### Suffix

-ant m (plural -annau)
* show the action of a verb or its result, -tion, -ment
    ‎maddau (“to forgive”) + ‎-ant → ‎maddeuant (“forgiveness”)

### Etymology 2
#### Suffix

-ant
* (literary) verb suffix for the third-person plural present indicative/future