mountant

English

Etymology

From mount +‎ -ant. Doublet of montant.

Adjective

mountant (comparative more mountant, superlative most mountant)

1. (archaic) Rising
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens:

     Hold up, you sluts, / Your aprons mountant

Noun

mountant (plural mountants)

1. (microscopy) The medium used for mounting a slide
   • 2004, Cletus P. Kurzman, Jack W. Fell, “Yeasts”, in Biodiversity of Fungi‎, →ISBN, page 335:

     Both mountants can be placed on the same slide, with spores placed in each.

2. (photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount
   • 1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography‎, reprint edition, published 1964, →ISBN, page 365:

     The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.

Related terms

• montant

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mountaunt

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French montant; equivalent to mounten +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuːntant/, /munˈtau̯nt/

Noun

mountant (plural mountantes)

1. (rare) A post or vertical beam.
2. (rare, astrology) ascendant

Descendants

• English: montant

References

• “mǒuntaunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 August 2018.