Kant
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English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Kant
- A surname from German.
- Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.
- 1995, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, →ISBN, page 5:
- So it is natural to speak of a category of all categories, which we call CAT, the objects of which are all the categories, and the arrows of which are all the functors. This raises genuine problems. Is CAT a category in itself? Our answer here is to treat CAT as a regulative idea; that is, an inevitable way of thinking about categories and functors, but not a strictly legitimate entity. (Compare the self, the universe, and God in Kant 1781.) Of course, general category theory applies to CAT, and this category that we do not quite believe in is the single one that we investigate the most.
Translations
surname
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Kant
- A city in Kyrgyzstan
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German
Etymology
- As an occupational surname for a precentor, from Old Northern French cant, from Old French chant (“song”).
- As a habitational surname, from the noun Kante (“edge, corner”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ant
Proper noun
Kant m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Kants or (with an article) Kant, feminine genitive Kant, plural Kants)
- a surname, notably borne by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant
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Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kant”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 273.
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Perhaps directly from Middle Dutch kante, or through German Kante, from Middle Low German kante, from the same. Further from Old French *cant, northern variant of chant, from Latin cantus.
Pronunciation
Noun
Kant f (plural Kanten)
Synonyms
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kant m pers
- (philosophy) Kant (Immanuel Kant)
Declension
Declension of Kant
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adjective
nouns
Further reading
- Kant in Polish dictionaries at PWN