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
- IPA(key): /ɛnt/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
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.
Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently didn't 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) (feminine entwife)
- (fantasy) A fictional, large, humanoid, mobile talking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- 2001, Stephen King and Peter Straub, p133 The Talisman:
- Ents and Entwives, Jack thought crazily. BAD Ents and Entwives.
- 2003, Walter Scheps, "The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings", in Jared Lobdell (ed.), 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, Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship
- Tolkien's Treebeard, his Ent creation, was inspired by Lewis, especially his sometimes emphatic deep voice
- 2003, Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth
- Tolkien perhaps speaks for himself when he has Treebeard confess that "nobody cares for the woods as I care for them," and when this same Ent also warns that "the withering of all woods may be drawing near"
- 2003, Allen Paterson, p180 Trees for Your Garden:
- But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.
- 2003, Robert Dunn, p98 Horse Latitudes:
- 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, p37 Men of Their Word:
- Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.
- 2004, Paola Amico and James Beletic, page xxvi Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era:
- The Ents are a race of giant, tree-like people. Their purpose is to protect the electrons, though some align themselves with holes. However, as the great arrays have grown, the number of Ents has dwindled. Now they are said only to be found in the darkest and most mysterious of laboratories.
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Derived terms
- treant
Translations
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Etymology 2
Possibly from empty, through assimilation of the "m" to the following "t"
Verb
ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle enting, simple past and past participle ented)
- (dialect, Britain, Devon) To empty or pour.
- 1976, K. C. Phillips: Westcountry Words and Ways, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1976, p. 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.
- 1976, K. C. Phillips: Westcountry Words and Ways, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1976, p. 47
Anagrams
- .NET, NET, Net, TEN, net, ten
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛnt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
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
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of enten
- imperative of enten
Anagrams
- net, ten
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *anþi. Compare Finnish entä (“what about; what if”), Ingrian entä (“but, however”).
Conjunction
ent
- but
Ladin
Alternative forms
- ënt
Noun
ent m (plural enc)
- entity
- corporation, body
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *anti, from unknown origin. Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐍄- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ent/
Noun
ent m
- giant
Declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | ent | entas |
accusative | ent | entas |
genitive | entes | enta |
dative | ente | entum |
Synonyms
- eoten
- þyrs
Derived terms
- entisċ
Descendants
- Middle English: eont
- → English: ent
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *antiz (“giant”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Old English ent, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐍄- (ant-, “giant-”, prefix).
Noun
ent m
- giant
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ent | entos |
accusative | ent | entos |
genitive | entes | entō |
dative | ente | entum |
instrumental | — | — |
Derived terms
- entisk
Portuguese
Adverb
ent (not comparable)
- (Internet slang) Abbreviation of então.
Conjunction
ent
- (Internet slang) Abbreviation of então.
Interjection
ent
- (Internet slang) Abbreviation of então.
Scots
Verb
ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle entin, simple past ented, past participle ented)
- Shetland form of aint
References
- “ent, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.