Kant

Borrowed from German Kant.

Kant

1. A surname from German.
2. Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.
   • 1995, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, →ISBN, page 5:

     So it is natural to speak of a category of all categories, which we call CAT, the objects of which are all the categories, and the arrows of which are all the functors. This raises genuine problems. Is CAT a category in itself? Our answer here is to treat CAT as a regulative idea; that is, an inevitable way of thinking about categories and functors, but not a strictly legitimate entity. (Compare the self, the universe, and God in Kant 1781.) Of course, general category theory applies to CAT, and this category that we do not quite believe in is the single one that we investigate the most.

From Kyrgyz Кант (Kant)

Kant

1. A city in Kyrgyzstan

• tank

• As an occupational surname for a precentor, from Old Northern French cant, from Old French chant (“song”).
• As a habitational surname, from the noun Kante (“edge, corner”).

• Rhymes: -ant

Kant m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Kants or (with an article) Kant, feminine genitive Kant, plural Kants)

1. a surname, notably borne by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant

• Kantian

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kant”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 273.

Perhaps directly from Middle Dutch kante, or through German Kante, from Middle Low German kante, from the same. Further from Old French *cant, northern variant of chant, from Latin cantus.

• IPA^(key): [kɑnt]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt
  • Homophones: Kand

Kant f (plural Kanten)

1. edge

• Bord
• Rand

Borrowed from German Kant.

• IPA^(key): /kant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: Kant
• Homophone: kant

Kant m pers

1. (philosophy) Kant (Immanuel Kant)

• Kant in Polish dictionaries at PWN