"urinant" meaning in English

See urinant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From Latin ūrīnāns, present active participle of ūrīnor (“I dive”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|ūrīnāns}} Latin ūrīnāns, {{m|la|ūrīnor||I dive}} ūrīnor (“I dive”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} urinant (not comparable)
  1. (heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Heraldry Related terms: urinator [obsolete] Coordinate_terms: hauriant, naiant

Download JSON data for urinant meaning in English (2.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ūrīnāns"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ūrīnāns",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ūrīnor",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I dive"
      },
      "expansion": "ūrīnor (“I dive”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin ūrīnāns, present active participle of ūrīnor (“I dive”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "urinant (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hauriant, haurient"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Heraldry",
          "orig": "en:Heraldry",
          "parents": [
            "History",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "hauriant"
        },
        {
          "word": "naiant"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal Charges Used in Armory, the Signification of Heraldic Terms, and the Rules to be Observed in Blazoning and Marshalling ; Together with the Armorial Bearings of All the Landed Gentry in England Prior to the Sixteenth Century, page 84",
          "text": "On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco",
          "text": "2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins \"dark azure\" (sic).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India",
          "text": "Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving."
      ],
      "id": "en-urinant-en-adj-SNhcwwES",
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "fish",
          "fish#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "oriented",
          "orient#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "vertically",
          "vertically"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "base",
          "base#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "tail",
          "tail"
        ],
        [
          "chief",
          "chief"
        ],
        [
          "positioned",
          "position#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "diving",
          "diving#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "urinator"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "urinant"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "hauriant"
    },
    {
      "word": "naiant"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ūrīnāns"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ūrīnāns",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ūrīnor",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I dive"
      },
      "expansion": "ūrīnor (“I dive”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin ūrīnāns, present active participle of ūrīnor (“I dive”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "urinant (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "urinator"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hauriant, haurient"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "en:Heraldry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal Charges Used in Armory, the Signification of Heraldic Terms, and the Rules to be Observed in Blazoning and Marshalling ; Together with the Armorial Bearings of All the Landed Gentry in England Prior to the Sixteenth Century, page 84",
          "text": "On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco",
          "text": "2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins \"dark azure\" (sic).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India",
          "text": "Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "fish",
          "fish#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "oriented",
          "orient#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "vertically",
          "vertically"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "base",
          "base#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "tail",
          "tail"
        ],
        [
          "chief",
          "chief"
        ],
        [
          "positioned",
          "position#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "diving",
          "diving#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "urinant"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.