truant

Significado (Inglés)

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).

Sinónimos

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

Traducións

Schulschwänzer

οκνηρός

Bummler

spijbelend

kaçak

aylak

spijbelaar

τεμπέλης

novillero

Schwänzerin

φυγόπονος

σκασιάρχης

φυγόσχολος

élève

Schwänzer

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈtɹuːənt/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: truant

Relativo a francés: truand

Relativo a bretón: truc

Relativo a irlandés: trogán

Relativo a Middle Dutch: trawant

Relativo a occitano: truan

Relativo a portugués: truão

Relativo a gaélico escocés: trudanach

Relativo a español: truhan

Relativo a galés: tru

Herdado de Middle English: truaunten

Relativo a francés: truander

Herdado de Middle English: 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”)