vivant
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French vivant (“living”).
Noun
vivant
- (card games) In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vivant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Etymology
Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīvēns, vīventem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vivant (feminine vivante, masculine plural vivants, feminine plural vivantes)
- alive; living
- Je croyais qu’il était mort, mais il est encore vivant.
- I thought he was dead, but he is still alive.
Verb
vivant
Noun
vivant m (plural vivants, feminine vivante)
- a living person
- a lifetime
- all living things
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vivant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) vīvant
Old French
Etymology
Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīvēns, vīventem.
Adjective
vivant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vivant or vivante)
Declension
Verb
vivant
Descendants
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