flotant

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”).

Adjective

flotant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Represented as flying or streaming in the air or in water.

   a banner flotant

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “flotant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Catalan

Verb

flotant

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Old French

Verb

flotant

1. present participle of floter

Adjective

flotant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular flotant or flotante)

1. floating; that floats

Descendants

• → English: flotant
• French: flottant

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (flotant, supplement)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flottant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /floˈtant/

Adjective

flotant m or n (feminine singular flotantă, masculine plural flotanți, feminine and neuter plural flotante)

1. floating

Declension

Declension of flotant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	flotant		flotantă	flotanți	flotante
	definite	flotantul		flotanta	flotanții	flotantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	flotant		flotante	flotanți	flotante
	definite	flotantului		flotantei	flotanților	flotantilor

Synonyms

• plutitor

Related terms

• flota
• flotabil
• flotabilitate
• flotare
• flotație
• flotă
• flotilă