flotant

Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”).

flotant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Represented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water.

   a banner flotant

• floatant, flottant

• “flotant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

flotant

1. gerund of flotar

flotant

1. present participle of floter

flotant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular flotant or flotante)

1. floating; that floats

• → English: flotant
• French: flottant

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (flotant, supplement)

Borrowed from French flottant.

• IPA^(key): /floˈtant/

flotant m or n (feminine singular flotantă, masculine plural flotanți, feminine and neuter plural flotante)

1. floating

   Synonym: plutitor