contendent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contendens, contendentis, present participle of contendō.

Noun

contendent (plural contendents)

1. (obsolete) An antagonist; a contestant.
   • 1679, Roger L'Estrange, The Case Put Concerning the Succession of the Duke of York:

     In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “contendent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Related terms

• contend

Catalan

Etymology

From contendre +‎ -ent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.tənˈden]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kon.tənˈdent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kon.tenˈdent]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -en(t)

Noun

contendent m (plural contendents, feminine contendent, feminine plural contendents)

1. opponent, antagonizer

Further reading

• “contendent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Latin

Verb

contendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of contendō