flotant

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

flotant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Represented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water.

   a banner flotant

Alternative forms

• floatant, flottant

References

• “flotant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Catalan

Verb

flotant

1. gerund 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

• → English: flotant
• French: flottant

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e 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

   Synonym: plutitor

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	flotantilor

Related terms

• flota
• flotabil
• flotabilitate
• flotare
• flotație
• flotă
• flotilă