sant

sant

See also: Sant, sânt, sänt, sånt, șanț, and sant'

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan sant, from Latin sānctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

sant m (plural sants, feminine santa)

1. 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)

1. holy; saintly

References

• “sant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

Adjective

sant m (feminine sante)

1. holy, sacred

Related terms

• santificâ
• santimonie

Noun

sant m (plural sants)

1. saint

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Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French centre (“centre”).

Noun

sant

1. centre

Etymology 2

From French senteur (“scent”).

Verb

sant

1. to scent

Noun

sant

1. scent

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Ladin

Alternative forms

• sent

Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sanc, feminine plural santes)

1. sacred

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

sant

1. neuter singular of sann

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

sant

1. neuter singular of sann

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)

1. holy; sacred

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Old High German

Alternative forms

• *samt

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

1. sand

Derived terms

• santstein

Descendants

• Middle High German: sant; sampt, sambt
  • German: Sand
  • Luxembourgish: Sand
  • Vilamovian: zaond
  • Yiddish: זאַמד‎ (zamd)

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• san
• sanct

Etymology

From Latin sānctus.

Noun

sant m (oblique plural sants, nominative singular sants, nominative plural sant)

1. a saint

Adjective

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)

1. sacred; holy

Descendants

• Catalan: sant

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Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sant/

Adjective

sant m (plural santos)

1. 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.

Descendants

• Spanish: san

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Swedish

Adjective

sant

1. absolute indefinite neuter singular of sann.

Anagrams

• stan

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Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh sant, from Proto-Brythonic *sant, from Vulgar Latin santus, from Latin sānctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

sant m (plural saint or seintiau, feminine santes, not mutable)

1. 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

• nawddsant
• santaidd
• santdod

Related terms

• sain (“saint”)
• san (“saint”)

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

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Wolof

Noun

sant (definite form sant wi)

1. last name

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 5