ent
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of French partie entière, Spanish parta entera, etc.
Symbol
ent
- (mathematics, rare) A symbol for the floor function.
Usage notes
Mentioned in ISO 80000-2:2019 as an alternative to the ⌊x⌋ bracket notation.
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent.
Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not survive through the Middle English period into Modern times. Apparently survived in some German dialects as Enz (“giant”), also in composite forms. Compare ettin.
Noun
ent (plural ents)
- (fantasy) A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- 2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, A Tolkien Compass:
- […] and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).
- 2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180:
- But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.
- 2003, Robert Dunn, Horse Latitudes, page 98:
- Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.
- 2006, John Allran, Men of Their Word, page 37:
- Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.
- 2017, Inga Simpson, Understory, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Possibly from empty, through assimilation of /m/ to the following /t/.
Verb
ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle enting, simple past and past participle ented)
- (Cornwall) To empty or pour.
- 1976, K. C. Phillips, Westcountry Words and Ways, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, page 47:
- A Truro correspondent remembers being sent to buy a teapot with the admonition 'and see he got a good ent to un'; that is, of course, a good 'pour'.
"Enting down with rain" is still occasionally heard.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch ente, from enten (“to graft”) (modern Dutch enten), from Old French enter, from Latin imputāre.
Noun
ent m (plural enten, diminutive entje n)
- graft (particularly on a tree)
Descendants
- → Indonesian: enten (from the plural)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
ent
- inflection of enten:
Anagrams
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Norse , from Proto-Germanic *anþi. Compare Finnish entä (“what about; what if”).
Conjunction
ent
Ladin
Alternative forms
Noun
ent m (plural enc)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *anti, from unknown origin. Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐍄- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).
Pronunciation
Noun
ent m
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *antiz (“giant”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Old English ent, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐍄- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).
Noun
ent m
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ent | entos |
| accusative | ent | entos |
| genitive | entes | entō |
| dative | ente | entum |
| instrumental | — | — |
Derived terms
Portuguese
Adverb
ent (not comparable)
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of então.
Conjunction
ent
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of então.
Interjection
ent
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of então.
Scots
Verb
ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle entin, simple past ented, past participle ented)
References
- “ent, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.