Kant

See also: kant and känt

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Kant.

Proper noun

Kant

1. A surname from German.
2. Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.
   • 1995, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, →ISBN, page 5:

     So it is natural to speak of a category of all categories, which we call CAT, the objects of which are all the categories, and the arrows of which are all the functors. This raises genuine problems. Is CAT a category in itself? Our answer here is to treat CAT as a regulative idea; that is, an inevitable way of thinking about categories and functors, but not a strictly legitimate entity. (Compare the self, the universe, and God in Kant 1781.) Of course, general category theory applies to CAT, and this category that we do not quite believe in is the single one that we investigate the most.

Translations

surname

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: Կանտ (Kant)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 康德 (zh) (Kāngdé)

• German: Kant (de)
• Hindi: कांत (hi) (kānt), कांट (kāṇṭ), काण्ट (kāṇṭ)
• Japanese: カント (kanto)
• Korean: 칸트 (kanteu)
• Russian: Кант (ru) (Kant)

Etymology 2

From Kyrgyz Кант (Kant)

Proper noun

Kant

1. A city in Kyrgyzstan

Translations

city in Kyrgyzstan

• Kazakh: Қант (Qant)
• Kyrgyz: Кант (ky) (Kant)
• Turkish: Kant
• Uzbek: Qand

Anagrams

• tank

German

Etymology

• As an occupational surname for a precentor, from Old Northern French cant, from Old French chant (“song”).
• As a habitational surname, from the noun Kante (“edge, corner”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ant

Proper noun

Kant m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Kants or (with an article) Kant, feminine genitive Kant, plural Kants)

1. a surname, notably borne by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant

Derived terms

• Kantian

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kant”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 273.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Perhaps directly from Middle Dutch kante, or through German Kante, from Middle Low German kante, from the same. Further from Old French *cant, northern variant of chant, from Latin cantus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑnt]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt
  • Homophones: Kand

Noun

Kant f (plural Kanten)

1. edge

Synonyms

• Bord
• Rand

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: Kant
• Homophone: kant

Proper noun

Kant m pers

1. (philosophy) Kant (Immanuel Kant)

Declension

Declension of Kant

	singular
nominative	Kant
genitive	Kanta
dative	Kantowi
accusative	Kanta
instrumental	Kantem
locative	Kancie
vocative	Kancie

Derived terms

adjective

• kantowski

 

nouns

• kantysta
• kantystka
• kantyzm

 

Further reading

• Kant in Polish dictionaries at PWN