corrodant

English

Adjective

corrodant (comparative more corrodant, superlative most corrodant)

1. (rare) corrodent, corrosive
   • 1833, William Cobbett, A New French and English Dictionary, in Two Parts, Part I: French and English, page 104:

     Corrodant, adj. corrodant, having the power of corroding or wasting by degrees, corrosive.

Noun

corrodant (plural corrodants)

1. (rare) A corrosive agent; a corrodent.
   • 1835, Thomas Greene Fessenden, editor, The New England Farmer, XIII, № 5, page 37/3:

     I understand that a complete transmutation takes place in the iron; it gradually becomes incrusted with the copper, whilst at the same time the acids act as a corrodant; so that a piece of iron thrown in, after a certain time, comes out copper, but whether weight for weight, or size for size, I do not recollect.

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

corrodant

1. present participle of corroder

Further reading

• “corrodant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

corrōdant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of corrōdō