-ent
English
Etymology
From Middle English -ent, also -ant, -aunt, etc., from Old French -ent and its source Latin -ēns (accusative singular -entem), suffix of present participles of verbs in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th conjugations.[1]
Suffix
-ent
- Causing, promoting, or doing a certain action
- One that causes, promotes, or does a certain action
Usage notes
- Adjectives terminating in -ent are usually accompanied by derived nouns having -ence or -ency, as cadence and ardency.
Derived terms
See also
References
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “-ent”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1944.
Anagrams
Dutch
Suffix
-ent
- -ent
French
Suffix
-ent
- A suffix denoting the third-person plural present indicative form of a verb
Hungarian
Etymology
-e- (“linking vowel”) + -n (“instantaneous suffix”) + -t (“causative suffix”)[1]
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ent
- (instantaneous suffix) Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing an instantaneous action.
- tüsszent (“to sneeze”)
Usage notes
- (instantaneous suffix) Harmonic variants:
- -ant is added to back vowel words
- -ent is added to front vowel words
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ -ent in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ent/, [ɛn̪t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ent/, [ɛn̪t̪]
Suffix
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch suffixes
- French lemmas
- French suffixes
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian lemmas
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- Latin 1-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation