gerent

See also: gèrent

English

Etymology

Latin gerēns, present participle of gerō.

Noun

gerent (plural gerents)

1. (rare) A manager.
   • 1851, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, transl., Prometheus Bound:

     Yet Zeus, howbeit most absolute of will,
     Shall turn to meekness,—such a marriage-rite
     He holds in preparation, which anon
     Shall thrust him headlong from his gerent seat,
     And leave no track behind!

   • 1862 February 8, The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, & Society‎^[1], volume 4, page 141:

     The "college," an institution of which the Reverend Mr. Easy is the gerent, was founded as Mr. Jeaffreson makes it pleasantly appear, by an "old woman," one Lady Arabella Howard, who died at the rip age of ninety-three, bequeathing large landed estates for the support and instruction of the poor in the highly favoured vicinity of Farnham Cobb.

   • 1878, Dublin Review‎^[2], volume 83, page 270:

     On this account the people who were the gerents of this Sovereignty were brought by a disposition of Divine Providence into contact with the Hebrew people, and made by this means into instruments for the diffusion of the true monotheistic religion.

   • 2009, Tariq Ramadan, Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity‎^[3], page 88:

     The process of secularisation is very clearly the process by which the gerent claimed his rights after being long suppressed by the authority of the Church.

Derived terms

• vicegerent

Anagrams

• Engert, Genter, Regent, regent

Breton

Noun

gerent

1. Soft mutation of kerent.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gerentem.

Noun

gerent m or f by sense (plural gerents)

1. manager

Further reading

• “gerent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gerent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gerent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gerent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

gerent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of gerō