-ant

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-ant

/ənt/
/enʈ/ India
[ë̞ɳʈ] India

Sounds like -ent

Where it comes from

From Middle English -ant, -aunt, partly from Old French -ant, from Latin -āns; and partly (in adjectival derivations) continuing Middle English -ant, a variant of -and, -end, from Old English -ende (present participle ending), see -and. False cognate of Malay and Indonesian -an (and so all its Austronesian cognates), and Arabic ان (“adjective forming suffix”).

suffix

morpheme The agent noun derived from verb. serve → servant
morpheme An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process described by the noun)".
morpheme An adjective derived from a verb, having the senses of: (a) "doing (the verbal action)", and/or (b) "prone/tending to do (the verbal action)". ascend → ascendant
alternative, morpheme Alternative form of -and blatant, blicant; flippant, old-farrant

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@misc{ant_2026,
  title = {-ant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-ant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}