albicant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin albicāns (“whitening, becoming white”, oblique stem: albicant-), present participle of albicō (“I am white”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ălʹbĭkənt, IPA(key): /ˈalbɪkənt/, [ˈalbɪkn̩t]
Adjective
albicant (not comparable)
- (rare) Growing or becoming white.
Translations
growing or becoming white
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 albicant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈal.bi.kant/, [ˈaɫ.bɪ.kant]
Verb
albicant
- third-person plural present active indicative of albicō