ovant

From Latin ovans (“triumphant”), present participle of ovare (“to exult”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvənt/

ovant (comparative more ovant, superlative most ovant)

1. (obsolete) exultant
   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book IV]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:

     A Generall was said to enter Ovant into the citie, when ordinarily without his armie following him, he went on foot, or rode on horsebacke only, and the people in their Acclamations for joy, redoubled Ohe, or Oho.

• ovation

• “ovant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

ovant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ovō

ovant

1. indefinite neuter singular of ovan