garant

See also: Garant

French

Etymology

From Middle French garant, from Old French garant, garand, guarant, a borrowing from Frankish *warand, from Frankish *warjan (“to authorise, warrant”). Cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁɑ̃/

Verb

garant

1. present participle of garer

Noun

garant m (plural garants)

1. guarantor
2. surety

Related terms

• garantir

Further reading

• “garant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• garaunt
• garent
• garrant
• garraunt

• guarant
• guarent
• warant

Noun

garant oblique singular, m (oblique plural garanz or garantz, nominative singular garanz or garantz, nominative plural garant)

1. guaranty; assurance
2. witness
3. protector
4. (law) warrantor
5. safety
6. protection (from harm, etc.)
7. permission
8. permission slip; written authorization

Descendants

• French: garant

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (garant)
• garant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎrant/
• Hyphenation: ga‧rant

Noun

gàrant m (Cyrillic spelling га̀рант)

1. guarantor
2. (colloquial, as an interjection) sure, guaranteed

Declension

Declension of garant

	singular	plural
nominative	garant	garanti
genitive	garanta	garanata
dative	garantu	garantima
accusative	garanta	garante
vocative	garante	garanti
locative	garantu	garantima
instrumental	garantom	garantima

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡarant/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːrant/, /ˈɡarant/

Verb

garant

1. Soft mutation of carant.