flotant

English

Etymology

Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”).

Adjective

flotant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Represented as flying or streaming in the air or in water.
    a banner flotant

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flotant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Catalan

Verb

flotant

  1. present participle of flotar

Old French

Verb

flotant

  1. present participle of floter

Adjective

flotant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular flotant or flotante)

  1. floating; that floats

Descendants

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flotant, supplement)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flottant.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /floˈtant/

Adjective

flotant m or n (feminine singular flotantă, masculine plural flotanți, feminine and neuter plural flotante)

  1. floating

Declension
declension of flotant
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative		 indefinite flotant flotantă flotanți flotante
definite flotantul flotanta flotanții flotantele
genitive/
dative		 indefinite flotant flotante flotanți flotante
definite flotantului flotantei flotanților flotantelor

Synonyms
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