sant
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sant/
- Rhymes: -ant
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.
- 1994, Les Festes dels sants. Material per a la celebració, Centre de Pasoral Litúrgica (publ.), page 8.
Further reading
- “sant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “sant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Friulian
Related terms
- santificâ
- santimonie
Ladin
Alternative forms
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *samdaz, whence also Old Saxon sand, Old Dutch sant, Old English sand, Old Norse sandr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos.
Old Occitan
Old Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [s̺ãnt]
Adjective
sant m (plural santos)
- Apocopic form of santo.
- c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v.
- en ebrȯ regno dḋ. ij. ȧnos. ebrȯ a agora nȯbre ſȧt abraam.
- David ruled over Hebron for two years. Hebron now has the name Saint Abraham.
- en ebrȯ regno dḋ. ij. ȧnos. ebrȯ a agora nȯbre ſȧt abraam.
- c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v.
Swedish
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sant/
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.