truant

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
2. (not-comparable, specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
3. (not-comparable, obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.

Noun

1. An idle or lazy person; an idler.
2. (specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.

Verb

1. (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To idle away or waste (time).

Conceptes

truà

campaner

Sinònims

hooky player

awol

shirker

lazy person

play truant

nonattender

no-show

lazy fellow

quitter

absent

skipper

skiver

skulker

AWOL

scutter

runaway

deserter

fugitive

goldbrick

idle

idler

lazy

loitering

Traduccions

Schulschwänzer

novillero

spijbelaar

aylak

τεμπέλης

kaçak

Bummler

οκνηρός

spijbelend

paresseux

élève

φυγόσχολος

Schulschwänzerin

élève absent sans autorisation

φυγόπονος

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈtɹuːənt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: truant

Cognat amb francès: truand

Cognat amb bretó: truc

Cognat amb irlandès: trogán

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: trawant

Cognat amb occità: truan

Cognat amb portuguès: truão

Cognat amb gaèlic escocès: trudanach

Cognat amb espanyol: truhan

Cognat amb gal·lès: tru

Heretat de anglès mitjà: truaunten

Cognat amb francès: truander

Heretat de anglès mitjà: truaunt

In summary

The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”).
Cognates
* Breton truc (“beggar”)
* Irish trogán, trogha (“destitute”)
* Middle Dutch trawant, trouwant, truwant
* Occitan truan
* Portuguese truão
* Scottish Gaelic trudanach (“vagabond”), truaghan (“wretched”)
* Spanish truhan
* Welsh tru, truan (“wretched”)