vivant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French vivant (“living”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vivant
References[edit]
- “vivant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīventem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vivant (feminine vivante, masculine plural vivants, feminine plural vivantes)
- alive
- living
- Antonym: mort
- une langue vivante ― a living language
- un fossile vivant ― a living fossil
- un tableau vivant ― a tableau vivant (posed scene resembling a painting)
Participle[edit]
vivant
Noun[edit]
vivant m (plural vivants, feminine vivante)
- living person
- un bon vivant ― a person who enjoys the good things in life
- lifetime
- du vivant de ― during the lifetime of
- all living things
- le domaine du vivant ― The land of the living.
Further reading[edit]
- “vivant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
vīvant
Middle French[edit]
Verb[edit]
vivant (feminine singular vivante, masculine plural vivans, feminine plural vivantes)
Adjective[edit]
vivant m (feminine singular vivante, masculine plural vivans, feminine plural vivantes)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīvēns, vīventem.
Adjective[edit]
vivant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vivant or vivante)
Declension[edit]
Declension of vivant
Verb[edit]
vivant
Descendants[edit]
- French: vivant
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vivant m or n (feminine singular vivantă, masculine plural vivanți, feminine and neuter plural vivante)
Declension[edit]
Declension of vivant
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | vivant | vivantă | vivanți | vivante | ||
definite | vivantul | vivanta | vivanții | vivantele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | vivant | vivante | vivanți | vivante | ||
definite | vivantului | vivantei | vivanților | vivantelor |
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