albicant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

albicant (not comparable)

1. (rare) Growing or becoming white.

Translations

growing or becoming white

• Portuguese: albicante

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

albicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of albicō