daint
See also: dain't
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deɪnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
Adjective
daint (comparative more daint, superlative most daint)
- (obsolete) Dainty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] to cherish him with diets daint,
She cast to bring him, where he chearen might […]
Etymology 2
Adverb
daint (not comparable)
Anagrams
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.
Noun
daint m (plural daints)