English Explanatory Dictionary

admirant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Obsolete form of admiral.

Word forms

admirant admirants

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French amirant etc. under influence of variants with ad-, Latin admirans (“admiring”), or Spanish almirante (“admiral”), from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare also Medieval Latin admirandus and Anglo-Norman admirand.

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