Etymology

performant

per·form·ant
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Today it means: Of or relating to performance. Full definition →

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The story

From perform + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, and adjectives from verbs with the senses of ‘doing (the action of the verb’)), possibly modelled after informant.

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