optant

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English

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Etymology

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From opt +‎ -ant.

Noun

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optant (plural optants)

  1. A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
    • 1914, W. R. Prior, Oxford Pamphlets: North Sleswick under Prussian Rule[1], London: Oxford University Press, page 9:
      According to one authority, nearly 40,000 of the Sleswick Danes had become 'optants'—that is, had taken the 'option' of Danish nationality—or had emigrated, by the end of 1880.
  2. A person who opts into, out of, or for something.

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Verb

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optant

  1. gerund of optar

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin optāns, present active participle of optāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔpˈtɑnt/
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  • Hyphenation: op‧tant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

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optant m (plural optanten, diminutive optantje n)

  1. optant

Derived terms

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French

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Participle

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optant

  1. present participle of opter

Latin

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Verb

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optant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of optō