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See also: Ent, ENT, ént, ënt, ent-, -ent, and ent.

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of French Category:Translingual terms derived from French#ENT partie entière, Spanish Category:Translingual terms derived from Spanish#ENT parta entera, etc.

Symbol

entCategory:Translingual lemmas#ENT Category:Translingual symbols#ENT Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#ENT Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#ENT Category:Pages with entries#ENT Category:Pages with 10 entries#ENT

(mathematics Category:mul:Mathematics#ENT, rare Category:Translingual terms with rare senses#ENT) A symbol for the floor function.

Usage notes

Mentioned in ISO 80000-2:2019 as an alternative to the ⌊x⌋ bracket notation.

English

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ent

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old English Category:English terms borrowed from Old English#ENT Category:English learned borrowings from Old English#ENT Category:English terms derived from Old English#ENT ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic Category:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#ENT *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent.

Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not 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)Category:English lemmas#ENT Category:English nouns#ENT Category:English countable nouns#ENT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ENT Category:Pages with entries#ENT Category:Pages with 10 entries#ENT

(fantasy Category:en:Fantasy#ENT) A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- 2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, 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).
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT
- 2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180:
  But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.
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- 2003, Robert Dunn, Horse Latitudes, page 98:
  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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT
- 2006, John Allran, Men of Their Word, page 37:
  Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT
- 2017, Inga Simpson, Understory‎, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
  In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT

Alternative forms

Ent

Derived terms

Translations

a fictional large talking tree

Category:Entries with translation boxes#ENT

Bengali: এণ্ট (enṭo)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#ENT
Czech: ent mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#ENT
Finnish: entti (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#ENT
German: Ent mCategory:Terms with German translations#ENT
Marathi: एन्ट m (enṭa)Category:Terms with Marathi translations#ENT
Russian: энт m (ent)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ENT
Serbo-Croatian: ент mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#ENT, ent mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#ENT

Etymology 2

Possibly from empty, through assimilation of /m/ to the following /t/.

Verb

ent (third-person singular simple present ents, present participle enting, simple past and past participle ented)Category:English lemmas#ENT Category:English verbs#ENT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ENT Category:Pages with entries#ENT Category:Pages with 10 entries#ENT

(Cornwall Category:Cornish English#ENT) To pour, especially of rain. Category:en:Rain#ENT
- 1880, Cornish tales, Cornish tales, in prose and verse, in the Cornish dialect [ed. by J.T. Tregellas]., page 26:
  " […] ent me out some beer, / Fill up my glass to quinch my thust, Weth bitter like thee'st gove me fust."
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT
- 1976, K. C. Phillips, Westcountry Words and Ways, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, page 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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT
- 2015 April 28, Beth Hersant, Good Neighbours, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 285:
  "And look at it enting down. I'm glad I'm not out in it."
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT
- 2019 October 22, Winston Graham, The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
  'Stay a space longer,' urged Music. 'Look at'n. 'Tis enting down.' 'Put yer clothes on, then,' said Katie. You'll catch yer death.' He dragged off into the scullery and presently emerged in his Sunday best.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ENT

Anagrams

.NET, NET, Net, TEN, net, ten

Category:English terms derived from Tolkien's legendarium#ENT Category:en:Fictional characters#ENT Category:en:J. R. R. Tolkien#ENT Category:en:Mythological creatures#ENT

Dutch

graft (particularly on a tree)

Descendants

→ Indonesian: enten (from the plural)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

entCategory:Dutch non-lemma forms#ENT Category:Dutch verb forms#ENT Category:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#ENT Category:Pages with entries#ENT Category:Pages with 10 entries#ENT

inflection of enten:
1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
2. imperative

Anagrams

net, ten

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Norse Category:Estonian terms derived from Proto-Norse#ENT [Term?]Category:Proto-Norse term requests#ENT, from Proto-Germanic Category:Estonian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#ENT *anþi. Compare Finnish entä (“what about; what if”).

Conjunction

entCategory:Estonian lemmas#ENT Category:Estonian conjunctions#ENT Category:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#ENT Category:Pages with entries#ENT Category:Pages with 10 entries#ENT

but

Ladin

Alternative forms

ënt

Noun

ent m (plural enc)Category:Ladin lemmas#ENT Category:Ladin nouns#ENT Category:Ladin entries with incorrect language header#ENT Category:Ladin masculine nouns#ENT Category:Pages with entries#ENT Category:Pages with 10 entries#ENT

entity
corporation, body

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic Category:Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#ENT Category:Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#ENT *anti, from unknownCategory:Old English terms with unknown etymologies#ENT origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ent/Category:Old English terms with IPA pronunciation#ENT

Noun

ent mCategory:Old English lemmas#ENT Category:Old English nouns#ENT Category:Old English entries with incorrect language header#ENT Category:Old English masculine nouns#ENT Category:Pages with entries#ENT Category:Pages with 10 entries#ENT

giant (mythical creature)
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
  Ȳþde swā þisne eardġeard · ælda Sċyppend
  oþþæt burgwara · breahtma lēase
  eald enta ġeweorc · īdlu stōdon.
  Thus, Creator of men was destroying this world
  until works of old giants, lacking of
  citizens' noises, stood empty.
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