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Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of French partie entière, Spanish parta entera, etc.

Symbol

ent

1. (mathematics, rare) A symbol for the floor function.

Usage notes

Mentioned in ISO 80000-2:2019 as an alternative to the ?x? bracket notation.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55.

Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently didn't survive through the Middle English period into Modern times.

Noun

ent (plural ents) (feminine entwife)

1. (fantasy) A fictional, large, humanoid, mobile talking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
   • 2003, Walter Scheps, "The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings", in Jared Lobdell (ed.), A Tolkien Compass

     […] and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).

   • 2003, Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship

     Tolkien's Treebeard, his Ent creation, was inspired by Lewis, especially his sometimes emphatic deep voice

   • 2003, Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth

     Tolkien perhaps speaks for himself when he has Treebeard confess that "nobody cares for the woods as I care for them," and when this same Ent also warns that "the withering of all woods may be drawing near"

Derived terms

• treant

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from empty, through assimilation of the "m" to the following "t"

Verb

ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle enting, simple past and past participle ented)

1. (dialect, Britain, Devon) To empty or pour.
   • 1976, K. C. Phillips: Westcountry Words and Ways, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1976, p. 47

     A Truro correspondent remembers being sent to buy a teapot with the admonition 'and see he got a good ent to un'; that is, of course, a good 'pour'.

     "Enting down with rain" is still occasionally heard.

Anagrams

• .NET, NET, Net, TEN, net, ten

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt/
• Hyphenation: ent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ente, from enten (“to graft”) (modern Dutch enten), from Old French enter, from Latin imput?re.

Noun

ent m (plural enten, diminutive entje n)

1. graft (particularly on a tree)

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: enten (from the plural)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ent

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of enten
2. imperative of enten

Anagrams

• net, ten

Estonian

Conjunction

ent

1. but

Ladin

Alternative forms

• ënt

Noun

ent m (plural enc)

1. entity
2. corporation, body

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *anti, from unknown origin. Cognate with Gothic ????????????- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ent/

Noun

ent m (nominative plural entas)

1. giant

Declension

Synonyms

• eoten
• þyrs

Derived terms

• entis?

Descendants

• Middle English: eont
• ? English: ent

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *antiz (“giant”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Old English ent, Gothic ????????????- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).

Noun

ent m

1. giant

Declension

Derived terms

• entisk

Portuguese

Adverb

ent (not comparable)

1. (Internet slang) Abbreviation of então.

Conjunction

ent

1. (Internet slang) Abbreviation of então.

Interjection

ent

1. (Internet slang) Abbreviation of então.

English

Verb

ment

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of meng
2. Obsolete spelling of meant

Anagrams

• T-men

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin mentem, accusative singular of m?ns (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?men/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

ment f (plural ments)

1. the mind
2. the spirit

Related terms

• -ment
• dement
• mental

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular present indicative form of mentir
2. second-person singular imperative form of mentir

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

ment

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of mennen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of mennen

Estonian

Etymology

From Russian ???? (ment).

Noun

ment (genitive mendi, partitive menti)

1. (slang) cop (police officer)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• politseinik
• võmm

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular present indicative of mentir

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mentem, accusative singular of m?ns (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Noun

ment f (plural ments)

1. mind
2. intelligence

Related terms

• mentâl

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?nt]
• Hyphenation: ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From the obsolete verb menik (“to flee”) + -t (causative suffix).

Verb

ment

2. (transitive) to rescue, to save

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the men- stem of the verb megy +? -t.

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular past of megy

Participle

ment

1. past participle of megy
   • 1926, Gyula Juhász, Esti dal^[1] [’Evening Song’]

     De ha az alkonyat leszállott, / Olyan kedves, kámzsás barátok / A barna árnyékok nekem, / A messze menteket idézik

     But when the dusk has set in / The brown shadows are / Such nice, hooded monks for me, / Recalling those who went afar

Declension

Etymology 3

Adjective

ment (comparative mentebb, superlative legmentebb)

1. (archaic, literary) exempt

   Synonym: mentes

Declension

References

Further reading

• (to save): ment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (exempt): ment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ment

1. past participle of mene