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significans
significans
Latin
Participle
significāns m, f, n (genitive significantis); third declension
- showing, expressing, signifying, pointing out
- (by extension) significant, meaningful
- (by extension) expressive
- portending, prognosticating
- calling, naming
- meaning, importing
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | significāns | significantēs | significantia | ||
| genitive | significantis | significantium | |||
| dative | significantī | significantibus | |||
| accusative | significantem | significāns | significantēs | significantia | |
| ablative | significante, significantī1 | significantibus | |||
| vocative | significāns | significantēs | significantia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
Related terms
References
- significans in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “significans”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.