ent

See also: Ent, ENT, ént, ënt, ent-, -ent, and ent.

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of French partie entière, Spanish parta entera, etc.

Symbol

ent

(mathematics, rare) A symbol for the floor function.

Usage notes

Mentioned in ISO 80000-2:2019 as an alternative to the ⌊x⌋ bracket notation.

English

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ent

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

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

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.
- 2017, Inga Simpson, Understory‎^[1], Hachette UK, →ISBN:
  In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.

Alternative forms

Ent

Derived terms

Translations

a fictional large talking tree

Bengali: এণ্ট (enṭo)
Czech: ent m
Finnish: entti (fi)
German: Ent m
Marathi: एन्ट m (enṭa)
Russian: энт m (ent)
Serbo-Croatian: ент m, ent m

Etymology 2

Possibly from empty, through assimilation of /m/ to the following /t/.

Verb

ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle enting, simple past and past participle ented)

(Cornwall) To pour, especially of rain.
- 1880, Cornish tales, Cornish tales, in prose and verse, in the Cornish dialect [ed. by J.T. Tregellas]., page 26:
  " […] ent me out some beer, / Fill up my glass to quinch my thust, Weth bitter like thee'st gove me fust."
- 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.
- 2015 April 28, Beth Hersant, Good Neighbours, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 285:
  "And look at it enting down. I'm glad I'm not out in it."
- 2019 October 22, Winston Graham, The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
  'Stay a space longer,' urged Music. 'Look at'n. 'Tis enting down.' 'Put yer clothes on, then,' said Katie. You'll catch yer death.' He dragged off into the scullery and presently emerged in his Sunday best.

Anagrams

.NET, NET, Net, TEN, net, ten

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛnt/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: ent
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ente, from enten (“to graft”) (modern Dutch enten), from Old French enter, from Latin imputāre.

Noun

ent m (plural enten, diminutive entje n)

graft (particularly on a tree)

Descendants

→ Indonesian: enten (from the plural)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ent

inflection of enten:
1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
2. imperative

Anagrams

net, ten

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *anþi. Compare Finnish entä (“what about; what if”).

Conjunction

ent

but

Ladin

Alternative forms

ënt

Noun

ent m (plural enc)

entity
corporation, body

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *anti, from unknown origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ent/

Noun

ent m

giant (mythical creature)
- 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.

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	ent	entas
accusative	ent	entas
genitive	entes	enta
dative	ente	entum

Synonyms

eoten
þyrs

Derived terms

entisċ

Descendants

Middle English: eont
→ English: ent

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *anti (“giant”). Cognate with Old English ent.

Noun

ent m

giant

Declension

**ent** (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	ent	entos
accusative	ent	entos
genitive	entes	entō
dative	ente	entum
instrumental	—	—

Derived terms

entisk

Portuguese

Adverb

ent (not comparable)

(Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of então

Conjunction

ent

(Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of então

Interjection

ent

(Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of então

Scots

Verb

ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle entin, simple past and past participle ented)

Shetland form of aint

References

“ent, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Vilamovian

Alternative forms

end

Etymology

From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”).

Noun

ent n

end