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Etymology edit

From Middle French volant, present participle of voler (to fly), from Latin volāre.

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volant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Having extended wings as if flying.
    • 1864, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 342:
      Crest - A horseshoe ar. betw. two wings volant sa. Farrer
    • 1924, The Publications of the Harleian Society, page 73:
      A demi-ostrich, wings volant proper.
  2. (heraldry) Represented as unsupported in the air.
     
    A marlet volant.
    • 1864, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 553:
      A martlet volant. Motto - In Deo solo spes mea. Kay
  3. Flying, or able to fly.
    • 1657, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philosopher, Plutarch, page 525:
      Alexander the Great [] lanced himself in manner of a Star Volant in the Air, leaping out of the East into the West, []
  4. Moving quickly or lightly, as though flying; nimble.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 209:
      he turned to catch through the trees a flitting glimpse of her light dress, her volant attitude, as she sped silently and secretly back to the waiting group on the porch.

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volant m or f (masculine and feminine plural volants)

  1. flying

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volant m (plural volants)

  1. steering wheel, handwheel
  2. (badminton) shuttlecock
  3. badminton
  4. tassel
  5. (clothing) fringe, ruffle
  6. (medicine) referral

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volant

  1. gerund of volar

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Czech edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French volant (steering wheel).

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volant m inan

  1. steering wheel

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  • volant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • volant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • volant in Internetová jazyková příručka

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volant

  1. present participle of voler
    Voici un oiseau volant.
    Here's a flying bird.

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volant m (plural volants)

  1. steering wheel
  2. (technical) flywheel
  3. flounce
  4. (badminton) shuttlecock, birdie

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  • Czech: volant
  • Danish: volant
  • German: Volant
  • Italian: volant
  • Turkish: volan
  • Vietnamese: vô-lăng

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from French volant.

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volant m (invariable)

  1. frill, flounce

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  • volant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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volant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of volō

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volant m

  1. steering wheel
    Synonym: sters

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volant m inan (genitive singular volanta, volantu, nominative plural volanty, genitive plural volantov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. steering wheel

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Further reading edit

  • volant”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024