versant
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
versant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)
- (archaic) Experienced, practiced.
- 1849, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page 441:
- I do not profess to be particularly versant with heraldry or heraldic language; but, […]
- Conversant.
- 1822, Sydney Smith, “Prisons”, in Edinburgh Review:
- This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it.
Noun edit
versant (plural versants)
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Verb edit
versant
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
versant m (plural versants)
Participle edit
versant
Further reading edit
- “versant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
versant
Piedmontese edit
Noun edit
versant m (plural versant)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
versant n (plural versante)
Declension edit
Declension of versant
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) versant | versantul | (niște) versante | versantele |
genitive/dative | (unui) versant | versantului | (unor) versante | versantelor |
vocative | versantule | versantelor |