versant

Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/

versant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)

1. (archaic) experienced, practiced
2. conversant
   • Sydney Smith

     This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it.

3. (heraldry, not comparable) With the wings erect and open.

versant (plural versants)

1. a slope of a mountain or mountain ridge
2. the overall slope of a region

• servant, starven, taverns

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.sɑ̃/

versant

1. present participle of verser

versant m (plural versants)

1. slope, side

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

• servant

versant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of versō