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

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/
    • (file)

Adjective edit

versant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)

  1. (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,  []
  2. 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)

  1. A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge.
  2. The overall slope of a region.

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Catalan edit

Verb edit

versant

  1. gerund of versar

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

versant m (plural versants)

  1. slope, side

Participle edit

versant

  1. present participle of verser

Further reading edit

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Latin edit

Verb edit

versant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of versō

Piedmontese edit

Noun edit

versant m (plural versant)

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Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French versant.

Noun edit

versant n (plural versante)

  1. slope, side

Declension edit