adragant
English
editEtymology
editFrom French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth.
Noun
editadragant (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Gum tragacanth.
- 1741, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary:
- From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant :
“We had (says he) the Satisfaction
“of fully observing the Gum
“Adragant […]
- 1800, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, translated by W. Nicholson, Elements of Chemistry ... Translated from the French. The third edition, page 39:
- 3. Gum adragant.—The gum adragant […] flows from the adragant of Crete, a small shrub […]
- 1795, American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, One Thousand Valuable Secrets, in the Elegant and Useful Arts: Collected from the Practice of the Best Artists and Containing an Account of the Various Methods, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:
- Make a color composed of brown red, and a little flat, or Venetian lake, previously grinded with gum adragant. Then, with a largish brush, take of that color and asperse your oiled marble with it, by striking the handle of the brush on your wrist, ...
References
edit- “adragant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Catalan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editVariant form of tragacant.
Noun
editadragant m (plural adragants)
- (obsolete) tragacanth (gum)
- Synonym: tragacant
Further reading
edit- “adragant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editadragant m (plural adragants)
- tragacanth (gum)
Further reading
edit- “adragant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French adragant.
Noun
editadragant n (uncountable)
Declension
edit declension of adragant (singular only)
singular | ||
---|---|---|
n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) adragant | adragantul |
genitive/dative | (unui) adragant | adragantului |
vocative | adragantule |
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