aidant

English

Etymology

From Middle English aydaunt, aydant, a borrowing from Old French aidant, from the verb aidier (“to aid, to help”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.dənt/

Adjective

aidant (comparative more aidant, superlative most aidant)

1. (obsolete) helpful, assisting
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     All you unpublished virtues of the earth, / Spring with my tears, be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!

Anagrams

• anatid, tanaid

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əjˈdant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /əjˈdan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ajˈdant/

Verb

aidant

1. present participle of aidar

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

aidant

1. present participle of aider

Adjective

aidant (feminine aidante, masculine plural aidants, feminine plural aidantes)

1. helping

Noun

aidant m (plural aidants, feminine aidante)

1. helper

Further reading

• “aidant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Verb

aidant

1. present participle of aider

Adjective

aidant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aidant)

1. ready or in agreement to help, to assist

Declension

Declension of aidant

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	aidanz, aidans, aidants	aidant	aidant
	Oblique	aidant	aidant	aidant
Plural	Subject	aidant	aidanz, aidans, aidants	aidant
	Oblique	aidanz, aidans, aidants	aidanz, aidans, aidants	aidant