different between ewt vs ent

English

Etymology

See newt.

Noun

ewt (plural ewts)

1. (obsolete) A newt.

Anagrams

• Tew, tew, wet

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.