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admirant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ad-mi-rant
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of admiral.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French amirant etc. under influence of variants with ad-, Latin admirans (“admiring”), or Spanish almirante (“admiral”), from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare also Medieval Latin admirandus and Anglo-Norman admirand.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: -, amirant, admirans, almirante, amiralis, أَمِير

Usage

Inflected Forms

admirants (plural)

Questions

What does admirant mean?
Obsolete form of admiral.
Where does admirant come from?
It is traced to Old French.

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