variant

English

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Etymology

Recorded since c.1380, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#VARIANT variant, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#VARIANT variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)Category:English lemmas#VARIANTCategory:English adjectives#VARIANTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. Showing variety, diverse.
  2. Showing deviation or disagreement.
  3. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#VARIANT) Variable.
  4. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#VARIANT) Covariant and/or contravariant.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

variant (plural variants)Category:English lemmas#VARIANTCategory:English nouns#VARIANTCategory:English countable nouns#VARIANTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
    All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.Category:English terms with usage examples#VARIANT
  2. (geneticsCategory:en:Genetics#VARIANT) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
    • 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
      Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
      Category:English terms with quotations#VARIANT
  3. (programmingCategory:en:Programming#VARIANT) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
  4. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#VARIANT, lexicographyCategory:en:Lexicography#VARIANT) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
    The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.Category:English terms with usage examples#VARIANT
    • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 297:
      The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
      Category:English terms with quotations#VARIANT
    • 2014, Kimberly Geeslin, Avizia Yim Long, Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition‎, page 27:
      Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing.
      Category:English terms with quotations#VARIANT

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Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#VARIANTCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#VARIANT variantem. First attested in 1839.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

variant m or f (masculine and feminine plural variants)Category:Catalan lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Catalan adjectives#VARIANTCategory:Catalan epicene adjectives#VARIANTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. varying

Noun

variant m (plural variants)Category:Catalan lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Catalan nouns#VARIANTCategory:Catalan countable nouns#VARIANTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. variant

References

  1. ↑ “variant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

variantCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#VARIANTCategory:Catalan gerunds#VARIANTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. gerund of variarCategory:Catalan gerunds#VARIANT

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from RussianCategory:Crimean Tatar terms borrowed from Russian#VARIANTCategory:Crimean Tatar terms derived from Russian#VARIANT вариант (variant).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: va‧ri‧ant

Noun

variantCategory:Crimean Tatar lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Crimean Tatar nouns#VARIANTCategory:Crimean Tatar entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. variant

Declension

Declension of variant
singular plural
nominative variant variantlar
genitive variantnıñ variantlarnıñ
dative variantqa variantlarğa
accusative variantnı variantlarnı
locative variantta variantlarda
ablative varianttan variantlardan

References

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

variantCategory:Czech non-lemma forms#VARIANTCategory:Czech noun forms#VARIANTCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. genitive plural of varianta

Danish

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Danish terms borrowed from French#VARIANTCategory:Danish terms derived from French#VARIANT variant, variante, from LatinCategory:Danish terms derived from Latin#VARIANT variāns.

Pronunciation

Noun

variant c (singular definite varianten, plural indefinite varianter)Category:Danish lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Danish nouns#VARIANTCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. variant
    Synonym: variation
    Coordinate term: varietet

Declension

Declension of variant
common
gender		 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative variant varianten varianter varianterne
genitive variants variantens varianters varianternes

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from French#VARIANTCategory:Dutch terms derived from French#VARIANT variant or variante, from LatinCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#VARIANT variāns.

Pronunciation

Noun

variant m (plural varianten, diminutive variantje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Dutch nouns#VARIANTCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#VARIANTCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. a variant

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • “variant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Estonian

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Etymology

Borrowed from GermanCategory:Estonian terms borrowed from German#VARIANTCategory:Estonian terms derived from German#VARIANT Variante.

Noun

variant (genitive variandi, partitive varianti)Category:Estonian lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Estonian nouns#VARIANTCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. variant, variety, version (a specific variation of something)
    Synonyms: teisend, versioon
  2. option (one of a set of choices that can be made)
    Synonyms: alternatiiv, võimalus

Declension

Declension of variant (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
singular plural
nominative variant variandid
accusative nom.
gen. variandi
genitive variantide
partitive varianti variante
variantisid
illative varianti
variandisse		 variantidesse
variandesse
inessive variandis variantides
variandes
elative variandist variantidest
variandest
allative variandile variantidele
variandele
adessive variandil variantidel
variandel
ablative variandilt variantidelt
variandelt
translative variandiks variantideks
variandeks
terminative variandini variantideni
essive variandina variantidena
abessive variandita variantideta
comitative variandiga variantidega
Category:Estonian riik-type nominals#VARIANT

Further reading

  • “variant”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • “variant”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “variant”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • variant in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Pronunciation

Participle

variantCategory:French non-lemma forms#VARIANTCategory:French present participles#VARIANTCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. present participle of varierCategory:French present participles#VARIANT

Adjective

variant (feminine variante, masculine plural variants, feminine plural variantes)Category:French lemmas#VARIANTCategory:French adjectives#VARIANTCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. varied, which varies; variable

Noun

variant m (plural variants)Category:French lemmas#VARIANTCategory:French nouns#VARIANTCategory:French countable nouns#VARIANTCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:French masculine nouns#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. mutation, variant (of a virus)

Further reading

Latin

Verb

variantCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#VARIANTCategory:Latin verb forms#VARIANTCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of variō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin#VARIANT varians.

Noun

variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural varianter, definite plural variantene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#VARIANTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. a variant

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin#VARIANT varians.

Noun

variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural variantar, definite plural variantane)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#VARIANTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. a variant

References

Old French

Adjective

variant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular variant or variante)Category:Old French lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Old French adjectives#VARIANTCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. varying; which varies

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from French#VARIANTCategory:Swedish terms derived from French#VARIANT variante, attested from 1779.[1]

Noun

variant cCategory:Swedish lemmas#VARIANTCategory:Swedish nouns#VARIANTCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#VARIANTCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#VARIANTCategory:Pages with entries#VARIANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VARIANT

  1. variant

Declension

References

  1. ↑ “variant”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
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