protestant
See also: Protestant
English
Etymology
See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest + -ant.
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)
- Alternative letter-case form of Protestant.
- a protestant effort
- protestant work ethic
- Protesting.
- 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Again in the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 274:
- He cut his Psychology once or twice, nor could he succeed, during office hours, in keeping his mind on office-routine. His superiors became impatient and then protestant.
- 1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Train[1], Penguin, published 1963, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 191:
- Her sense of desolation, the knowledge that for some reason, God alone knew why, she loved him, made her for a moment protestant. Why not ? Why shouldn’t I write to him?
Noun
protestant (plural protestants)
- (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- These are too mean parts of the pageant: and you don't hear widows' cries or mothers' sobs in the midst of the shouts and jubilation in the great Chorus of Victory. And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph!
- 1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
- Alternative letter-case form of Protestant.
Catalan
Adjective
protestant m or f (masculine and feminine plural protestants)
Noun
protestant m or f by sense (plural protestants)
Derived terms
Verb
protestant
- gerund of protestar
Further reading
- “protestant”, 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
- “protestant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “protestant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “protestant”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈprotɛstant]
Noun
protestant m anim
- Protestant (person)
Declension
Declension of protestant (hard masculine animate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | protestant | protestanti |
| genitive | protestanta | protestantů |
| dative | protestantovi, protestantu | protestantům |
| accusative | protestanta | protestanty |
| vocative | protestante | protestanti |
| locative | protestantovi, protestantu | protestantech |
| instrumental | protestantem | protestanty |
Related terms
Further reading
- “protestant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “protestant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
protest + -ant. From German Protestant, from French protestant, from Latin protestans.
Noun
protestant c (singular definite protestanten, plural indefinite protestanter)
- a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | protestant | protestanten | protestanter | protestanterne |
| genitive | protestants | protestantens | protestanters | protestanternes |
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant
Noun
protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)
- Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: protestant
French
Etymology
Etymology tree
From protester + -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.
Pronunciation
Adjective
protestant (feminine protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)
- Protestant
- Hyponym: calviniste
Related terms
Participle
protestant
- present participle of protester
Noun
protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)
- Protestant (person)
- Synonym: parpaillot
- Hyponym: calviniste
Descendants
- → Persian: پروتستان (porotestân)
Further reading
- “protestant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)
- a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)
- a Protestant (as above)
Derived terms
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prɔˈtɛs.tant/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstant
- Syllabification: pro‧tes‧tant
Noun
protestant m pers (female equivalent protestantka)
- Protestant
- (archaic) protest participant
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | protestant | protestanci, protestanty1 |
| genitive | protestanta | protestantów |
| dative | protestantowi | protestantom |
| accusative | protestanta | protestantów |
| instrumental | protestantem | protestantami |
| locative | protestancie | protestantach |
| vocative | protestancie | protestanci |
1Deprecative.
Further reading
- “protestant”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “protestant”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
Romanian
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from French protestant. By surface analysis, protesta + -ant.
Noun
protestant m (plural protestanți)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | protestant | protestantul | protestanți | protestanții |
| genitive-dative | protestant | protestantului | protestanți | protestanților |
| vocative | protestantule | protestanților | ||
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /protěstant/
- Hyphenation: pro‧te‧stant
Noun
protèstant m anim (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | protèstant | protestanti |
| genitive | protestanta | protèstanātā |
| dative | protestantu | protestantima |
| accusative | protestanta | protestante |
| vocative | protestante | protestanti |
| locative | protestantu | protestantima |
| instrumental | protestantom | protestantima |
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
protestant c
- a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | protestant | protestants |
| definite | protestanten | protestantens | |
| plural | indefinite | protestanter | protestanters |
| definite | protestanterna | protestanternas |
Related terms
References
- “protestant”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “protestant”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “protestant”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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