protestant
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest + -ant.
AdjectiveEdit
protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)
- Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
- a protestant effort
- protestant work ethic
NounEdit
protestant (plural protestants)
- (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
- 1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
- Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
CatalanEdit
CzechEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant
NounEdit
protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)
- Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From protester + -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
protestant (feminine singular protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
protestant
NounEdit
protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)
- Protestant (person)
Further readingEdit
- “protestant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NounEdit
protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)
- a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)
Derived termsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)
- a Protestant (as above)
Derived termsEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
protèstant m (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | protèstant | protestanti |
| genitive | protestanta | protèstanātā |
| dative | protestantu | protestantima |
| accusative | protestanta | protestante |
| vocative | protestante | protestanti |
| locative | protestantu | protestantima |
| instrumental | protestantom | protestantima |
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
protestant c
- a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of protestant | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | protestant | protestanten | protestanter | protestanterna |
| Genitive | protestants | protestantens | protestanters | protestanternas |