protestant

See also: Protestant

English

Etymology

See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest +‎ -ant.

Adjective

protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant

   a protestant effort

   protestant work ethic

2. Protesting.
   • 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Again in the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 274:

     He cut his Psychology once or twice, nor could he succeed, during office hours, in keeping his mind on office-routine. His superiors became impatient and then protestant.

   • 1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Train‎^[1], Penguin, published 1963, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 191:

     Her sense of desolation, the knowledge that for some reason, God alone knew why, she loved him, made her for a moment protestant. Why not ? Why shouldn’t I write to him?

Noun

protestant (plural protestants)

1. (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     These are too mean parts of the pageant: and you don't hear widows' cries or mothers' sobs in the midst of the shouts and jubilation in the great Chorus of Victory. And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph!

   • 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.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant

Catalan

Adjective

protestant m or f (masculine and feminine plural protestants)

1. Protestant

Noun

protestant m or f by sense (plural protestants)

1. Protestant

Derived terms

• protestantisme

Verb

protestant

1. gerund of protestar

Further reading

• “protestant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “protestant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “protestant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “protestant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprotɛstant]

Noun

protestant m anim

1. Protestant (person)

Declension

Declension of protestant (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	protestant	protestanti
genitive	protestanta	protestantů
dative	protestantovi, protestantu	protestantům
accusative	protestanta	protestanty
vocative	protestante	protestanti
locative	protestantovi, protestantu	protestantech
instrumental	protestantem	protestanty

Related terms

• protestantství n

 

Further reading

• protestant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• protestant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant

Noun

protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)

1. Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: protestant

French

Etymology

From protester +‎ -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.tɛs.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

protestant (feminine protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)

1. Protestant

   Hyponym: calviniste

Related terms

• protestantisme

Participle

protestant

1. present participle of protester

Noun

protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)

1. Protestant (person)

   Synonym: parpaillot

   Hyponym: calviniste

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)

1. a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

Derived terms

• protestantisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)

1. a Protestant (as above)

Derived terms

• protestantisk

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈtɛs.tant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛstant
• Syllabification: pro‧tes‧tant

Noun

protestant m pers (female equivalent protestantka)

1. Protestant
2. (archaic) protest participant

Declension

Declension of protestant

	singular	plural
nominative	protestant	protestanci/protestanty (deprecative)
genitive	protestanta	protestantów
dative	protestantowi	protestantom
accusative	protestanta	protestantów
instrumental	protestantem	protestantami
locative	protestancie	protestantach
vocative	protestancie	protestanci

Further reading

• protestant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• protestant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French protestant.

Noun

protestant m (plural protestanți)

1. Protestant

Declension

Declension of protestant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) protestant	protestantul	(niște) protestanți	protestanții
genitive/dative	(unui) protestant	protestantului	(unor) protestanți	protestanților
vocative	protestantule		protestanților

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /protěstant/
• Hyphenation: pro‧te‧stant

Noun

protèstant m (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)

1. (Christianity) Protestant

Declension

Declension of protestant

	singular	plural
nominative	protèstant	protestanti
genitive	protestanta	protèstanātā
dative	protestantu	protestantima
accusative	protestanta	protestante
vocative	protestante	protestanti
locative	protestantu	protestantima
instrumental	protestantom	protestantima

Swedish

Etymology

protest +‎ -ant

Noun

protestant c

1. a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism

Declension

Declension of protestant
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	protestant	protestanten	protestanter	protestanterna
Genitive	protestants	protestantens	protestanters	protestanternas

Related terms

• protestantism
• protestantisk

References

• protestant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• protestant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• protestant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)