litigant

English

Etymology

From French litigant, from Middle French, from Latin litigans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtɪɡənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

litigant (plural litigants)

1. (law) A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.

Derived terms

• litigant in person
• nonlitigant

Translations

a party suing or being sued in a lawsuit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 訴訟當事人 / 诉讼当事人 (sùsòng dāngshìrén)

• Finnish: asianosainen (fi)
• Hungarian: peres / perben álló fél
• Latin: lītigātor m
• Macedonian: странка f (stranka)
• Malay: litigan

Adjective

litigant (comparative more litigant, superlative most litigant)

1. Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.

   the parties litigant

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French

Etymology

From Latin litigans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ti.ɡɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Adjective

litigant (feminine litigante, masculine plural litigants or (obsolete) litigans, feminine plural litigantes)

1. litigant

   les parties litigantes ― the parties litigant

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French litigant.

Noun

litigant

1. (law) litigant: a party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit

Further reading

• “litigant”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Verb

lītigant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lītigō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French litigant.

Adjective

litigant m or n (feminine singular litigantă, masculine plural litiganți, feminine/neuter plural litigante)

1. litigant

Declension

Declension of litigant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	litigant		litigantă	litiganți	litigante
	definite	litigantul		litiganta	litiganții	litigantele
genitive- dative	indefinite	litigant		litigante	litiganți	litigante
	definite	litigantului		litigantei	litiganților	litigantelor