different between montant vs mountant

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?nt?nt/

Etymology 1

From Italian montante. Doublet of mountant.

Noun

montant (plural montants)

1. (fencing, archaic) An upward cut with a blade
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (II.iii)

     HOST: To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mountant, from Old French montant.

Noun

montant (plural montants)

1. (carpentry) An upright piece in any framework, such as a muntin or stile
2. (drinking) The first scent of a cognac

Etymology 3

From Old French montant.

Adjective

montant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Ascending toward the chief of the escutcheon.

Usage notes

In heraldic descriptions, the adjective is used postpositively.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.t??/

Adjective

montant (feminine singular montante, masculine plural montants, feminine plural montantes)

1. upwards, climbing
2. uphill

Noun

montant m (plural montants)

1. a (monetary) amount
2. a structural montant

Verb

montant

1. present participle of monter
2. (preceded by en) gerund of monter

Further reading

• “montant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

montant m (plural montants)

1. (Jersey, nautical) flow tide

English

Etymology

mount +? -ant

Adjective

mountant (comparative more mountant, superlative most mountant)

1. (archaic) Rising

Noun

mountant (plural mountants)

1. (microscopy) The medium used for mounting a slide
2. (photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount

Related terms

• montant

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mountaunt

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French montant; equivalent to mounten +? -ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu?ntant/, /mun?tau?nt/

Noun

mountant (plural mountantes)

1. (rare) A post or vertical beam.
2. (rare, astrology) ascendant

Descendants

• English: montant

References

• “m?untaunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.