variant
English Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- variaunt (obsolete)
Etymology Edit
Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)
- Showing variety, diverse.
- Showing deviation or disagreement.
- (obsolete) Variable.
- (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.
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Noun Edit
variant (plural variants)
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
- All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.
- The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
- Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
- (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 297:
- The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
- 2014, Kimberly Geeslin, Avizia Yim Long, Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition[2], page 27:
- Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing.
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Anagrams Edit
Catalan Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Latin variantem, attested from 1839.[1]
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
variant m or f (masculine and feminine plural variants)
Noun Edit
variant m (plural variants)
Related terms Edit
References Edit
- ^ “variant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading Edit
- “variant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “variant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “variant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
variant c (singular definite varianten, plural indefinite varianter)
Declension Edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | variant | varianten | varianter | varianterne |
genitive | variants | variantens | varianters | varianternes |
Further reading Edit
Dutch Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from French variant or variante, from Latin variāns.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
variant m (plural varianten, diminutive variantje n)
- A variant.
Synonyms Edit
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Descendants Edit
- → Indonesian: varian
Further reading Edit
- “variant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Estonian Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from German Variante.
Noun Edit
variant (genitive variandi, partitive varianti)
- variant, variety, version (a specific variation of something)
- option (one of a set of choices that can be made)
- Synonyms: alternatiiv, võimalus
Declension Edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | variant | variandid |
accusative | variandi | variandid |
genitive | variandi | variantide |
partitive | varianti | variante variantisid |
illative | varianti variandisse |
variantidesse variandesse |
inessive | variandis | variantides variandes |
elative | variandist | variantidest variandest |
allative | variandile | variantidele variandele |
adessive | variandil | variantidel variandel |
ablative | variandilt | variantidelt variandelt |
translative | variandiks | variantideks variandeks |
terminative | variandini | variantideni |
essive | variandina | variantidena |
abessive | variandita | variantideta |
comitative | variandiga | variantidega |
Notes | 1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type. |
Further reading Edit
- variant in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
- variant in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
- variant in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
- variant in Sõnaveeb
French Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Participle Edit
variant
Adjective Edit
variant (feminine variante, masculine plural variants, feminine plural variantes)
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Noun Edit
variant m (plural variants)
Further reading Edit
- “variant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin Edit
Verb Edit
variant
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural varianter, definite plural variantene)
- a variant
References Edit
- “variant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural variantar, definite plural variantane)
- a variant
References Edit
- “variant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French Edit
Adjective Edit
variant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular variant or variante)
Descendants Edit
Swedish Edit
Etymology Edit
From French variante, attested from 1779.[1]
Noun Edit
variant c
Declension Edit
Declension of variant | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | variant | varianten | varianter | varianterna |
Genitive | variants | variantens | varianters | varianternas |
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References Edit
- ^ variant in Svensk ordbok.