Etymology

naiant

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Today it means: Depicted swimming horizontally. Full definition →

Middle French noiant ← Latin natare
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  1. Latin · derived fromnatare
  2. Middle French · derived fromnoiant
  3. English todaynaiant

From Middle French noiant, present participle of noier (“to swim”), from Latin natare. Doublet of natant.

Words from the same roots

Latinnatare all →

natatory

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