versant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/

Adjective

versant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)

1. (archaic) experienced, practiced
2. conversant
   • (Can we date this quote by Sydney Smith and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it.

3. (heraldry, not comparable) With the wings erect and open.

Noun

versant (plural versants)

1. a slope of a mountain or mountain ridge
2. the overall slope of a region

Anagrams

• servant, starven, taverns

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.sɑ̃/

Noun

versant m (plural versants)

1. slope, side

Verb

versant

1. present participle of verser

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• servant

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) versant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of versō

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Piedmontese

Noun

versant m (plural versant)

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