ENT


  1. Medicine/Medical. ear, nose, and throat.

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-ent

  1. a suffix, equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns and adjectives of Latin origin: accident; different.

Origin of -ent

2
From Latin -ent- (stem of -ēns ), present participle suffix of conjugations 2 (-ēre, as in habēre “to have”), 3 (-ere, as in scrībere “to write”), and 4 (-īre, as in audīre “to hear”)

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ENT

/ med /


abbreviation for
  1. ear, nose, and throat

British Dictionary definitions for -ent (2 of 2)

-ent

suffix forming adjectives, suffix forming nouns
  1. causing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action: astringent; dependent

Origin of -ent

2
from Latin -ent-, -ens, present participial ending

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