albicant

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin albicāns (“whitening, becoming white”, oblique stem: albicant-), present participle of albicō (“I am white”).

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: ălʹbĭkənt, IPA^(key): /ˈalbɪkənt/, [ˈalbɪkn̩t]

Adjective edit

albicant (not comparable)

(rare) Growing or becoming white.

Translations edit

growing or becoming white

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “albicant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bi.kant/, [ˈäɫ̪bɪkän̪t̪]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bi.kant/, [ˈälbikän̪t̪]

Verb edit

albicant

third-person plural present active indicative of albicō