sant

See also: Sant, sânt, sänt, sånt, șanț, and sant'

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sant/
  • Rhymes: -ant

Noun

sant m (plural sants, feminine santa)

  1. saint (a person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly)
    • 1994, Les Festes dels sants. Material per a la celebració, Centre de Pasoral Litúrgica (publ.), page 8.
      Honorar els sants és, per tant, honorar Crist.
      Honoring the saints is, therefore, honoring Christ.

Adjective

sant (feminine santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santes)

  1. holy; saintly

Further reading


Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

Adjective

sant m (feminine sante)

  1. holy, sacred

Noun

sant m (plural sants)

  1. saint

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French centre (centre)

Noun

sant

  1. centre

Etymology 2

Noun

sant

  1. scent

Ladin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sanc, feminine plural santes)

  1. sacred

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

sant

  1. neuter singular of sann

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

sant

  1. neuter singular of sann

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.

Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)

  1. holy; sacred

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *samdaz, whence also Old Saxon sand, Old Dutch sant, Old English sand, Old Norse sandr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos.

Noun

sant n

  1. sand

Descendants


Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin sānctus

Noun

sant m (oblique plural sants, nominative singular sants, nominative plural sant)

  1. a saint

Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)

  1. sacred; holy

Descendants


Old Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [s̺ãnt]

Adjective

sant m (plural santos)

  1. Apocopic form of santo.
    • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v.
      en ebrȯ regno dḋ. ij. ȧnos. ebrȯ a agora nȯbre ſȧt abraam.
      David ruled over Hebron for two years. Hebron now has the name Saint Abraham.

Descendants


Swedish

Adjective

sant

  1. absolute indefinite neuter form of sann.

Welsh

Etymology

From Latin sānctus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sant/

Noun

sant m (plural saint or seintiau)

  1. saint
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