volant
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French volant, present participle of voler (“to fly”), from Latin volāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvəʊlənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvoʊlənt/
- Rhymes: (UK) -əʊlənt, (General American) -oʊlənt
Adjective
[edit]volant (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Having extended wings as if flying.
- 1864, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 342:
- Crest - A horseshoe ar. betw. two wings volant sa. Farrer
- 1924, The Publications of the Harleian Society, page 73:
- A demi-ostrich, wings volant proper.
- (heraldry) Represented as unsupported in the air.
A marlet volant. - 1864, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 553:
- A martlet volant. Motto - In Deo solo spes mea. Kay
- Flying, or able to fly.
- 1657, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philosopher, Plutarch, page 525:
- Alexander the Great […] lanced himself in manner of a Star Volant in the Air, leaping out of the East into the West, […]
- Moving quickly or lightly, as though flying; nimble.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 209:
- he turned to catch through the trees a flitting glimpse of her light dress, her volant attitude, as she sped silently and secretly back to the waiting group on the porch.
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]volant m or f (masculine and feminine plural volants)
Noun
[edit]volant m (plural volants)
- steering wheel, handwheel
- (badminton) shuttlecock
- badminton
- tassel
- (clothing) fringe, ruffle
- (medicine) referral
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]volant
Further reading
[edit]- “volant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French volant (“steering wheel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]volant m inan
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “volant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “volant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “volant”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]volant
Adjective
[edit]volant (feminine volante, masculine plural volants, feminine plural volantes)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]volant m (plural volants)
- steering wheel
- Coordinate terms: guidon, barre
- prendre le volant ― to take the wheel
- au volant ― at the wheel
- fou du volant ― car buff, petrolhead; speeder
- (technical) flywheel
- flounce
- (badminton) shuttlecock, birdie
Descendants
[edit]- → Czech: volant
- → Danish: volant
- → German: Volant
- → Italian: volant
- → Turkish: volan
- → Vietnamese: vô-lăng
Further reading
[edit]- “volant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French volant.
Noun
[edit]volant m (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- volant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]volant
Piedmontese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]volant m
- steering wheel
- Synonym: sters
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]volant m inan (genitive singular volanta, volantu, nominative plural volanty, genitive plural volantov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
[edit]Declension of volant
Further reading
[edit]- “volant”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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