versant
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
editversant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)
- (archaic) Experienced, practiced.
- 1849, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page 441:
- I do not profess to be particularly versant with heraldry or heraldic language; but, […]
- Conversant.
- 1822, Sydney Smith, “Prisons”, in Edinburgh Review:
- This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it.
Noun
editversant (plural versants)
Anagrams
editCatalan
editVerb
editversant
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editversant m (plural versants)
Participle
editversant
Further reading
edit- “versant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editversant
Piedmontese
editNoun
editversant m (plural versant)
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Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editversant n (plural versante)
Declension
editDeclension of versant
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) versant | versantul | (niște) versante | versantele |
genitive/dative | (unui) versant | versantului | (unor) versante | versantelor |
vocative | versantule | versantelor |
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