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tirant
tirant
French
Noun
tirant m (plural tirants)
Derived terms
- tirant d'air
- tirant d'eau
Verb
tirant
- present participle of tirer
Anagrams
Old French
Etymology
From Latin tyrannus, which gave the nominative singular form tirans, from which the oblique singular tirant was constructed, under the assumption the -s suffix had replaced -ts.
Noun
tirant m (oblique plural tirans, nominative singular tirans, nominative plural tirant)
- tyrant
- 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 5, column 1, line 7:
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car il voloit le felon tirant
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car il voloit le felon tirant
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