ant
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmete (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American, Received Pronunciation, General Australian) enPR: ănt, IPA(key): /ænt/
- (New Zealand) enPR: ănt, IPA(key): /ɛnt/
- (Received Pronunciation, obsolete) enPR: änt, IPA(key): /ɑːnt/[1]
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): [ɛənt], [eənt]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ænt
- Homophone: aunt (in some accents)
NounEdit
ant (plural ants)
- Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] . But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
- (Internet) A Web spider.
SynonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- (insect in Formicidae): army ant, black garden ant, bull ant, carpenter ant, fire ant, garden ant, honey-pot ant, leafcutter ant, pharaoh ant, piss ant, red ant, sauba ant, thief ant, wood ant
Derived termsEdit
- ant bear, ant-bear, antbear
- ant-bed
- ant beetle (Thanasimus formicarius)
- antbird (Thamnophilidae spp.)
- ant-blue
- ant cap
- ant cattle
- ant cow
- ant cricket
- ant-eater
- anteater
- ant egg
- ant farm
- ant-heap
- ant-hill
- anthill
- anting
- antkind
- antlike
- ant lion
- antlion (Myrmeleontidae spp.)
- antly
- ant mill
- ant mound
- ant orchid
- antpitta (Grallariidae spp.)
- ant rattan
- ant rice
- ant sand
- antshrike (Thamnophilidae spp.)
- ants in one's pants
- ant thrush, antthrush (Formicarius spp., Chamaeza spp.)
- antvireo (Dysithamnus spp.)
- antwren (Myrmotherula spp.)
- Argentine ant
- banded sugar ant
- bigheaded ant
- blue ant
- bullet ant
- crazy ant
- driver ant
- duck ant
- ghost ant
- gliding ant
- green ant
- green tree ant
- harvester ant
- Hercules ant
- honey ant
- honey pot ant
- honeypot ant
- horse ant
- jet ant
- Langton's ant
- leaf-cutter ant
- leaf-cutting ant
- lemon ant
- lion ant
- little black ant
- meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus)
- panda ant
- parasol ant
- pavement ant
- piss-ant
- rainbow ant
- red imported fire ant
- safari ant
- skull-collecting ant
- slave ant
- slave-making ant
- sugar ant (Camponotus spp.)
- the ant's pants
- tramp ant
- trapjaw ant
- trap-jaw ant
- trap jaw ant
- turf ant
- turtle ant
- umbrella ant
- velvet ant (Mutillidae spp.)
- visiting ant
- warrior ant
- weaver ant
- white-ant
- white ant (Isoptera spp.)
- yellow crazy ant
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
- 🐜
- ant- (prefix)
- -ant (suffix)
- Appendix:Animals
- army
- bike
- colony
- nest
- Appendix:English collective nouns
VerbEdit
ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)
- (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
- 1974, “Relationship of anting and sunbathing to molting in wild birds”, in The Auk[2], volume 91, page 538:
- Wild birds tend to ant and sunbathe most frequently during periods of high humidity, particularly right after heavy or prolonged rainfall in summer.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Joan Beal (2002) English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 27 April 2018, page 109
AnagramsEdit
BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
ant m
CatalanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- dant (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Andalusian Arabic لمط (lámṭ), presumably by misdivision.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ant m (plural ants)
Further readingEdit
- “ant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean TatarEdit
NounEdit
ant
DeclensionEdit
nominative | ant |
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genitive | antnıñ |
dative | antqa |
accusative | antnı |
locative | antta |
ablative | anttan |
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][3], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
EgyptianEdit
RomanizationEdit
ant
Haitian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French entre (“between”).
PrepositionEdit
ant
LithuanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)[1][2][3]
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
añt (with genitive)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “ant”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 57
- ^ “añt” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 35 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
- ^ “ant”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
Further readingEdit
- “ant”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
- “ant”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2023
- Vytautas Ambrazas (2006), “Prepositions with the genitive case”, in Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, →ISBN, page 407
MeroiticEdit
RomanizationEdit
ant
- Romanization of 𐦠𐦩𐦴
Middle WelshEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ant
Norwegian BokmålEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ant
- past participle of ane
- past participle common of ane
- past participle neuter of ane
AnagramsEdit
ScotsEdit
VerbEdit
ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle antin, simple past antit, past participle antit)
ReferencesEdit
- “ant, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish آند (and), from Proto-Turkic *ānt (“oath”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰦 (nt), Azerbaijani and, etc.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ant (definite accusative andı, plural antlar)
DeclensionEdit
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SynonymsEdit
TurkmenEdit
NounEdit
ant (definite accusative ?, plural ?)
DeclensionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
VilamovianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German ente alongside ant, from Old High German enita alongside anut, from Proto-West Germanic *anad. Compare Dutch eend, German Ente.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ȧnt f (plural anta)