-ent
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English -ent, also -ant, -aunt, etc., from Old French -ent and its source Latin -ēns (accusative singular -entem), suffix of present participles of verbs in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th conjugations.[1]
SuffixEdit
-ent
- Causing, promoting, or doing a certain action
- One that causes, promotes, or does a certain action
Usage notesEdit
- Adjectives terminating in -ent are usually accompanied by derived nouns having -ence or -ency, as cadence and ardency.
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “-ent”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371, page 1944, column 3.
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ent
- -ent (Latinate suffix forming nouns and adjectives)
FrenchEdit
SuffixEdit
-ent
- A suffix denoting the third-person plural present indicative form of a verb
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
-e- (“linking vowel”) + -n (“instantaneous suffix”) + -t (“causative suffix”)[1]
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ent
- (instantaneous suffix) Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing an instantaneous action.
- tüsszent (“to sneeze”)
Usage notesEdit
- (instantaneous suffix) Harmonic variants:
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ent
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ent
- (literary) verb suffix for the third-person plural imperfect/conditional
- (literary) verb suffix for the third-person plural imperative