actant

English

Etymology

Simultaneously coined in English and French by Bruno Latour from action +‎ -ant

Noun

actant (plural actants)

1. (grammar) Any of the participants, such as the subject or object, in a grammatical clause.

Derived terms

• actantial

Translations

any of the participants in a grammatical clause

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行動元 / 行动元 (xíngdòngyuán)

• Estonian: aktantti
• Finnish: aktantti
• French: actant (fr) m
• Italian: attante (it) m
• Kazakh: актант (aktant)
• Kyrgyz: актант (aktant)
• Portuguese: actante m
• Spanish: actante m
• Vietnamese: diễn tố

French

Etymology

Coined in French by Lucien Tesnière.

Pronunciation

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• Homophone: actants

Noun

actant m (plural actants)

1. actant

Further reading

• “actant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• tançât

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French actant.

Noun

actant m (plural actanți)

1. actant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	actant	actantul		actanț	actanți
genitive-dative	actant	actantului		actanț	actanțlor
vocative	actantule			actanțlor