Ent

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See also: ent, ENT, ént, ënt, ent-, -ent, and ent.

English

Noun

Ent (plural Ents)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ent
    • 1955 October 20, J R R Tolkien, The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings , New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, page 510:
      The strange words and names that the Hobbits record as used by Treebeard and other Ents are thus Elvish, or fragments of Elf-speech strung together in Ent-fashion.
    • 2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, The Talisman, page 133:
      Ents and Entwives, Jack thought crazily. BAD Ents and Entwives.
    • 2003, Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship:
      Tolkien's Treebeard, his Ent creation, was inspired by Lewis, especially his sometimes emphatic deep voice
    • 2003, Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth:
      Tolkien perhaps speaks for himself when he has Treebeard confess that "nobody cares for the woods as I care for them," and when this same Ent also warns that "the withering of all woods may be drawing near"
    • 2004, Paola Amico, James Beletic, Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era, page xxvi:
      The Ents are a race of giant, tree-like people. Their purpose is to protect the electrons, though some align themselves with holes. However, as the great arrays have grown, the number of Ents has dwindled. Now they are said only to be found in the darkest and most mysterious of laboratories.

Anagrams

Hunsrik

Etymology

    From Middle High German ant, from Old High German enita, from Proto-West Germanic *anad, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts.

    Cognate with German Ente, Luxembourgish Int and Pennsylvania German Ent.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    Ent f (plural Ente)

    1. duck (any aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
      Die Ente schwimme im Assute.
      The ducks are swimming in the weir.
    2. (strictly) female duck
      Synonym: Batt
      Coordinate terms: Antrich, Battrich (male duck)

    References

    1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Ent”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 43, column 2

    Pennsylvania German

    Etymology

    From Middle High German anet, from Old High German enita. Compare German Ente, Dutch eend.

    Noun

    Ent f (plural Ende)

    1. duck
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