aidant

From Middle English aydaunt, aydant, a borrowing from Old French aidant, from the verb aidier (“to aid, to help”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.dənt/

aidant (comparative more aidant, superlative most aidant)

1. (obsolete) helpful, assisting
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     All you unpublished virtues of the earth, / Spring with my tears, be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!

• anatid, tanaid

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əjˈdant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /əjˈdan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ajˈdant/

aidant

1. present participle of aidar

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aidant

1. present participle of aider

aidant (feminine aidante, masculine plural aidants, feminine plural aidantes)

1. helping

aidant m (plural aidants, feminine aidante)

1. helper

• “aidant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

aidant

1. present participle of aider

aidant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aidant)

1. ready or in agreement to help, to assist