different between aidant vs adjuvant

English

Etymology

From Middle English aydaunt, aydant, a borrowing from Old French aidant, from the verb aidier (“to aid, to help”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.d?nt/

Adjective

aidant (comparative more aidant, superlative most aidant)

1. (obsolete) helpful, assisting
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear IV.iii

     All you unpublished virtues of the earth, / Spring with my tears, be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!

Anagrams

• anatid, tanaid

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?j?dant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?j?dan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aj?dant/

Verb

aidant

1. present participle of aidar

French

Verb

aidant

1. present participle of aider

Adjective

aidant (feminine singular aidante, masculine plural aidants, feminine plural aidantes)

1. helping

Noun

aidant m (plural aidants, feminine aidante)

1. helper

Old French

Verb

aidant

1. present participle of aider

Adjective

aidant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aidant)

1. ready or in agreement to help, to assist

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin adiuv?ns, present participle of adiuv?re (“to help”), from ad (“to”) + iuv?re (“to help”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: '?j-?-v?nt, IPA^(key): /?æd?.?.v?nt/

Adjective

adjuvant

1. Helping; helpful; assisting. [from 16th c.]
2. (medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. [from 19th c.]
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 219:

     Adjuvant chemotherapy, Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper.

Synonyms

• ancillary, complementary, contributory, extra, supporting

Translations

Noun

adjuvant (plural adjuvants)

1. Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.]
2. (medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. [from 18th c.]
3. (pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. [from 19th c.]
4. (pesticide science) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself. [from mid 20th c.]
5. (immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. [from 20th c.]
   • Gay, Frederick P.; Claypole, Edit J. (1914) , “Specific Hyperleukocytosis: Studies In Typhoid Immunization”, in Archives of Internal Medicine?^[1], volume XIV, issue 5, DOI:10.1001/archinte.1914.00070170055004, ISSN 0730-188X, retrieved 16 April 2020, pages 662–670

     The well-known tropic action of immune serum as an adjuvant to phagocytosis suggested early in our studies that we might here be dealing with a similar phenomenon.

Synonyms

• accessory, assistant, attendant, satellite, secondary, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary.

Translations

Related terms

• adjutant
• aid
• aidance
• aidant
• aide

Further reading

• adjuvant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• adjuvant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• adjuvant at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

adjuvant (feminine singular adjuvante, masculine plural adjuvants, feminine plural adjuvantes)

1. adjuvant

Noun

adjuvant m (plural adjuvants)

1. adjuvant

Latin

Verb

adjuvant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjuv?