versant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Adjective

versant (comparative more versant, superlative most versant)

1. (archaic) Experienced, practiced.
   • 1849, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page 441:

     I do not profess to be particularly versant with heraldry or heraldic language; but,  […]

2. Conversant.
   • 1822, Sydney Smith, “Prisons”, in Edinburgh Review:

     This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it.

Noun

versant (plural versants)

1. A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge.
2. The overall slope of a region.

Anagrams

• servant, starven, taverns

Catalan

Verb

versant

1. gerund of versar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.sɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

versant m (plural versants)

1. slope, side

Participle

versant

1. present participle of verser

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• servant

Latin

Verb

versant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of versō

Piedmontese

Noun

versant m (plural versant)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French versant.

Noun

versant n (plural versante)

1. slope, side

Declension

Declension of versant

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	versant	versantul		versante	versantele
genitive-dative	versant	versantului		versante	versantelor
vocative	versantule			versantelor