vivant
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French vivant (“living”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /vɪˈvænt/
\Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ænt
Noun
[edit]vivant
References
[edit]- “vivant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīventem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]vivant (feminine vivante, masculine plural vivants, feminine plural vivantes)
- alive
- living
- Antonym: mort
- une langue vivante ― a living language
- un fossile vivant ― a living fossil
- un tableau vivant ― a tableau vivant (posed scene resembling a painting)
Participle
[edit]vivant
Noun
[edit]vivant m (plural vivants, feminine vivante)
- living person
- un bon vivant ― a person who enjoys the good things in life
- lifetime
- du vivant de ― during the lifetime of
- all living things
- le domaine du vivant ― The land of the living.
Further reading
[edit]- “vivant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]vīvant
Middle French
[edit]Verb
[edit]vivant (feminine singular vivante, masculine plural vivans, feminine plural vivantes)
Adjective
[edit]vivant m (feminine singular vivante, masculine plural vivans, feminine plural vivantes)
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīvēns, vīventem.
Adjective
[edit]vivant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vivant or vivante)
Declension
[edit]Case | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
---|---|---|---|---|
singular | subject | vivanz | vivant or vivante (rare) | vivant |
oblique | vivant | |||
plural | subject | vivant | vivanz or vivantes (rare) | |
oblique | vivanz |
Verb
[edit]vivant
Descendants
[edit]- French: vivant
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]vivant m or n (feminine singular vivantă, masculine plural vivanți, feminine and neuter plural vivante)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | vivant | vivantă | vivanți | vivante | |||
definite | vivantul | vivanta | vivanții | vivantele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | vivant | vivante | vivanți | vivante | |||
definite | vivantului | vivantei | vivanților | vivantelor |
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