collant

Catalan

Verb

collant

1. gerund of collar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɑ̃/

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Participle

collant

1. present participle of coller

Adjective

collant (feminine collante, masculine plural collants, feminine plural collantes)

1. sticky, gluey, clammy
2. (figuratively, of a person, informal) hard to shake off; clingy, clinging
3. skintight, close-fitting, clinging

Derived terms

• autocollant
• papier collant
• thermocollant

Related terms

• collante

Noun

collant m (plural collants)

1. body stocking, leotard
2. (usually in the plural) tights (UK), pantyhose (US)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: colãs, collants (unadapted form), colã, collant (unadapted form)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collant.

Noun

collant m (invariable)

1. tights

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collant.

Noun

collant m (plural collants)

1. alternative spelling of colã (“tights”)

Further reading

• “collant”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “collant”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025