garant

See also: Garant

French

Etymology

From Middle French garant, from Old French garant, garand, guarant, a borrowing from Frankish *warand, from Frankish *warjan (“to authorise, warrant”). Cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁɑ̃/

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Participle

garant

1. present participle of garer

Noun

garant m (plural garants)

1. guarantor
2. surety

Derived terms

• se porter garant

Related terms

• garantir

Descendants

• → Czech: garant
• → Danish: garant
• → German: Garant
• → Macedonian: гарант (garant)
• → Norwegian: garant
• → Portuguese: garante
• → Romanian: garant
• → Russian: гарант (garant)
• → Serbo-Croatian: garant / гарант
• → Russian: гарант (garant)

Further reading

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

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Old French

Alternative forms

• garaunt, garent, garrant, garraunt, guarant, guarent, warant

Etymology

From Frankish *warjan.

Noun

garant m (oblique plural garanz or garantz, nominative singular garanz or garantz, nominative plural garant)

1. guaranty; assurance
2. witness
3. protector
4. (law) warrantor
5. safety
6. protection (from harm, etc.)
7. permission
8. permission slip; written authorization

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: warant, warand, warrant
  • → Middle English: warant
    • English: warrant
      • → Italian: warrant
    • Scots: warrand
• Middle French: garant
  • French: garant (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: garant, garrant, garraunt
• → Italian: garante
• → Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: garant
  • Occitan: garant
• → Spanish: garante
  • →? English: guarantee

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (garant)
• garant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Romanian

Etymology

From French garant.

Noun

garant m (plural garanți)

1. guarantor

Declension

Declension of garant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) garant	garantul	(niște) garanți	garanții
genitive/dative	(unui) garant	garantului	(unor) garanți	garanților
vocative	garantule		garanților

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎrant/
• Hyphenation: ga‧rant

Noun

gàrant m (Cyrillic spelling га̀рант)

1. guarantor
2. (colloquial, as an interjection) sure, guaranteed

Declension

Declension of garant

	singular	plural
nominative	garant	garanti
genitive	garanta	garanata
dative	garantu	garantima
accusative	garanta	garante
vocative	garante	garanti
locative	garantu	garantima
instrumental	garantom	garantima

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡarant/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːrant/, /ˈɡarant/

Verb

garant

1. Soft mutation of carant.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
carant	garant	ngharant	charant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.