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kent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
Verb
kent
- simple past tense and past participle of ken
Etymology 2
Perhaps a variant of the verb cant.
Noun
kent (plural kents)
- (Scotland) A shepherd's staff.
- (Scotland) A pole or pike.
Verb
kent (third-person singular simple present kents, present participle kenting, simple past and past participle kented)
- (Scotland) To propel (a boat) using a pole.
Anagrams
- tekn-
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nt
Verb
kent
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of kennen
- (archaic) plural imperative of kennen
Anagrams
- nekt
Hungarian
Etymology
ken +? -t
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?nt]
Verb
kent
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of ken
Participle
kent
- past participle of ken
Declension
Middle Dutch
Verb
kent
- inflection of kennen:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- plural imperative
Scots
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [k?nt], [kent]
Verb
kent
- simple past tense and past participle of ken
Adjective
kent (comparative mair kent, superlative maist kent)
- known
Derived terms
- ert-kent
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [k?nt]
Noun
kent (plural kents)
- shepherd's staff
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ???? (kent, “village, town, city”), from Sogdian [script needed] (kand, “city”). Compare Old Turkic kend? (kend, “city, settlement”). Possibly cognate with Northern Kurdish gund (“village”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /c?nt/
Noun
kent (definite accusative kenti, plural kentler)
- (countable) city
Declension
Synonyms
- ?ehir
Derived terms
See also
- köy
- kasaba
References
Weri
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?nt/
Noun
kent
- wind
References
- Maurice Boxwell, Weri Organised Phonology Data (1992), p. 2
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gent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
Short for gentleman.
Noun
gent (plural gents)
- (colloquial) A gentleman.
Related terms
- genteel
- gentile
- gentle
Etymology 2
From Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).
Adjective
gent (comparative more gent, superlative most gent)
- (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
- A knyght [who] was fair and gent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].
- (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
- Her body gent and small.
Etymology 3
Noun
gent (uncountable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin.
Anagrams
- Teng
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gentem, accusative of g?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /??ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /??en/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?d??ent/
- Rhymes: -ent
Noun
gent f (uncountable)
- people, folk
Derived terms
- gentada
- gentalla
- genteta
Further reading
- “gent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “gent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French gent, from Latin gens, gentem. Cf. gens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
Noun
gent f (plural gents or gens)
- (obsolete) people, nation
- (obsolete) tribe
- company, those who are in accompaniment
Adjective
gent (feminine singular gente, masculine plural gents, feminine plural gentes)
- (obsolete or humorous) nice, pleasant, or noble, speaking of a person or thing
Further reading
- “gent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From earlier Ganda; if from Celtic, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kom-dati (“confluence”), from Proto-Indo-European *kom-d?h?-ti- (“confluence”), equivalent to *?óm + *d?eh?- (similar to the town Condivincum); or related to the Celtic goddess Gontia. The name could otherwise be of non-Indo-European origin.
Noun
gent ?
- Ghent (a city in modern Belgium)
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: Gent
References
Further reading
- “ghent”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Old French
Pronunciation
- (early) IPA(key): /?d?ent/
- (by 13th century) IPA(key): /?d?ant/
- (Late Old French) IPA(key): /??ant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Etymology 1
From Latin gentem, accusative singular of g?ns. The nominative singular descends from a regularized form: oblique stem gent- and 3rd declension nominative -is.
Noun
gent f (oblique plural genz or gentz, nominative singular gent, nominative plural genz or gentz)
- people, population
- la Franceise gent - the French people
Descendants
- French: gens
- Norman: gens
- Walloon: djin
Etymology 2
From Latin genitus (“begotten”), perfect passive participle of gign?.
Adjective
gent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gente)
- fair, beautiful, handsome
- brave and beautiful
- polite
- Synonym: gentil
Usage notes
The Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français points out the difficulty of translating this word into modern languages. The adjective describes an ideal person in a given context: brave warriors in chansons de geste, loyal good men in tales of courtly love, polite people in all occasions, who are always handsome or beautiful. It also notes the meaning 'well-born, aristocratic', mentioned in some dictionaries of Old French, is extremely rarely attested.
Declension
Related terms
- gençor (comparative), also spelled gensor
Swedish
Adjective
gent
- absolute indefinite neuter form of gen.
Yola
Noun
gent
- Alternative form of geint
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