inconstant

English

Alternative forms

• inconstaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English inconstant, inconstante, inconstaunte, from Middle French inconstant and its etymon, Latin incōnstāns.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

inconstant (comparative more inconstant, superlative most inconstant)

1. Not constant; wavering.
2. Unfaithful to a lover.

Derived terms

• inconstancy
• inconstantly
• inconstantness

Translations

not constant

• Bulgarian: непостоянен (bg) (nepostojanen), колеблив (bg) (kolebliv)
• Catalan: inconstant (ca)
• Finnish: muuttuva (fi), vaihteleva (fi), epävakaa (fi)
• French: volubile (fr), inconstant (fr)
• Greek: ασταθής (el) (astathís), άστατος (el) m (ástatos)
• Ido: nekonstanta (io), variema (io)
• Irish: luaineach
• Italian: incostante (it), discontinuo (it), volubile (it)
• Latin: incōnstāns, mūtābilis, miscīx, īnstabilis, lūbricus, volāticus, mōbilis (la), maritimus, flexibilis, dēvius
• Maltese: qluqi
• Manx: neuhaanagh, kirkinagh, anhickyr, anchinjagh, frittagh
• Portuguese: inconstante (pt)
• Romanian: inconstant (ro), variabil (ro), nestatornic (ro), neconstant (rare)
• Russian: непостоя́нный (ru) (nepostojánnyj), изме́нчивый (ru) (izménčivyj)
• Spanish: inconstante (es)
• Turkish: hercai (tr)
• Woiwurrung: moor-moor-ween

Catalan

Etymology

From in- +‎ constant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [iŋ.kunsˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [iŋ.konsˈtant]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [iŋ.konsˈtan]

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• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

inconstant m or f (masculine and feminine plural inconstants)

1. inconstant

   Antonym: constant

Related terms

• inconstància

Further reading

• “inconstant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “inconstant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “inconstant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “inconstant”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ constant.

Adjective

inconstant (feminine inconstante, masculine plural inconstants, feminine plural inconstantes)

1. inconstant

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-lbor.

French in-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *staējō

Proto-Italic *staēō

Proto-Italic *komstaēō

Latin cōnstō

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -ans

Latin cōnstanslbor.

French constant

French inconstantbor.

Romanian inconstant

Borrowed from French inconstant. By surface analysis, in- + constant.

Adjective

inconstant m or n (feminine singular inconstantă, masculine plural inconstanți, feminine/neuter plural inconstante)

1. inconstant

Declension

Declension of inconstant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	inconstant		inconstantă	inconstanți	inconstante
	definite	inconstantul		inconstanta	inconstanții	inconstantele
genitive- dative	indefinite	inconstant		inconstante	inconstanți	inconstante
	definite	inconstantului		inconstantei	inconstanților	inconstantelor