ent
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Abbreviation of French partie entière, Spanish parta entera, etc.
Symbol
[edit]ent
- (mathematics, rare) A symbol for the floor function.
Usage notes
[edit]Mentioned in ISO 80000-2:2019 as an alternative to the ⌊x⌋ bracket notation.
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɛnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent.
Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not survive through the Middle English period into Modern times. Apparently survived in some German dialects as Enz (“giant”), also in composite forms. Compare ettin.
Noun
[edit]ent (plural ents)
- (fantasy) A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- 2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, A Tolkien Compass:
- […] and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).
- 2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180:
- But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.
- 2003, Robert Dunn, Horse Latitudes, page 98:
- Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.
- 2006, John Allran, Men of Their Word, page 37:
- Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Possibly from empty, through assimilation of /m/ to the following /t/.
Verb
[edit]ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle enting, simple past and past participle ented)
- (Cornwall) To empty or pour.
- 1976, K. C. Phillips, Westcountry Words and Ways, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, page 47:
- A Truro correspondent remembers being sent to buy a teapot with the admonition 'and see he got a good ent to un'; that is, of course, a good 'pour'.
"Enting down with rain" is still occasionally heard.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch ente, from enten (“to graft”) (modern Dutch enten), from Old French enter, from Latin imputāre.
Noun
[edit]ent m (plural enten, diminutive entje n)
- graft (particularly on a tree)
Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: enten (from the plural)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]ent
- inflection of enten:
Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *anþi. Compare Finnish entä (“what about; what if”).
Conjunction
[edit]ent
Ladin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]ent m (plural enc)
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *anti, from unknown origin. Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐍄- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ent m
- giant
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- Ȳþde swā þisne eardġeard · ælda Sċyppend
oþþæt burgwara · breahtma lēase
eald enta ġeweorc · īdlu stōdon.- Thus, Creator of men was destroying this world
until works of old giants, lacking of
citizens' noises, stood empty.
- Thus, Creator of men was destroying this world
Declension
[edit]Strong i-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ent | entas |
accusative | ent | entas |
genitive | entes | enta |
dative | ente | entum |
Synonyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Old Saxon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *anti (“giant”). Cognate with Old English ent, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐍄- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).
Noun
[edit]ent m
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ent | entos |
accusative | ent | entos |
genitive | entes | entō |
dative | ente | entum |
instrumental | — | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ent (not comparable)
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of então.
Conjunction
[edit]ent
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of então.
Interjection
[edit]ent
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of então.
Scots
[edit]Verb
[edit]ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle entin, simple past ented, past participle ented)
References
[edit]- “ent, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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