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Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan sant, from Latin sānctus.
Pronunciation
Noun
sant m (plural sants, feminine santa)
- 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)
- holy; saintly
References
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin sānctus.
Adjective
sant m (feminine sante)
- holy, sacred
Related terms
Noun
sant m (plural sants)
- saint
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French centre (“centre”).
Noun
sant
- centre
Etymology 2
From French senteur (“scent”).
Verb
sant
- to scent
Noun
sant
- scent
Ladin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin sānctus.
Adjective
sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sanc, feminine plural santes)
- sacred
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
sant
- neuter singular of sann
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
sant
- neuter singular of sann
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)
- holy; sacred
Derived terms
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *samd, 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
- sand
Derived terms
Descendants
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin sānctus.
Noun
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- a saint
Adjective
sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)
- sacred; holy
Descendants
Old Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
sant m (plural santos)
- Apocopic form of santo.
- c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v.
en ebrõ regno dd̃ .ij. ãnos. ebrõ a agora nõbre ſãt abraam.- David ruled over Hebron for two years. Hebron now has the name Saint Abraham.
Descendants
Pali
Alternative forms
Adjective
sant
- alternative citation form of santa (“being”)
References
- Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “sant”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead
Swedish
Adjective
sant
- indefinite neuter singular of sann
Anagrams
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh sant, from Proto-Brythonic *sant, from Vulgar Latin santus, from Latin sānctus.
Pronunciation
Noun
sant m (plural saint or seintiau, feminine santes, not mutable)
- male saint
Usage notes
- The plural form saint is now only used to refer to living people.
- When used as a title, sant comes before the name of a male saint, e.g. Sant Luc (“Saint Luke”), but can come after the names of certain Celtic saints, e.g. Dewi Sant (“Saint David”). For the titles of female saints, santes is used, often preceded by the definite article y, e.g. y Santes Fair (“Saint Mary”). The variants san and sain are also found occasionally, often in place names, e.g. Llansanffraid, Sain Ffagan (“St Fagans”).
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Wolof
Pronunciation
Noun
sant (definite form sant wi)
- last name
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 5