fent

See also: Fent

English

Etymology 1

Old French fente, from Latin findēre (“to cleave”).

Noun

fent (plural fents)

  1. (UK, dialect) A slit or crack.
  2. (UK, dialect) A remnant; an odd piece left over.

Noun

fent (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The drug fentanyl.

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

fent

  1. gerund of fer

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛnt]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: fent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

First attested in 1525. From the fen variant of fenn (“above”) +‎ -t (locative suffix).[1]

Alternative forms

Adverb

fent (comparative feljebb or fentebb, superlative legfelül or legfentebb)

  1. above, up
    Synonyms: fönt, fenn, fönn, felül, fölül
  2. upstairs
  3. up, awake
    Synonym: ébren
Usage notes

The form fentebb and the uncommon legfentebb are only used in formal style with említett (or a synonymous verb), in the sense “above-mentioned” or “aforesaid”. In the literal sense, feljebb (or its variant följebb) and legfelül (or its variant legfölül) are used as its comparative and superlative.

Derived terms
Compound words

Etymology 2

fen +‎ -t

Verb

fent

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fen
    János késeket és ollókat fent. ― János sharpened / was sharpening knives and pairs of scissors.

Participle

fent

  1. past participle of fen
    Ez egy élesre fent kés. ― It is a knife whetted sharp.
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative fent fentek
accusative fentet fenteket
dative fentnek fenteknek
instrumental fenttel fentekkel
causal-final fentért fentekért
translative fentté fentekké
terminative fentig fentekig
essive-formal fentként fentekként
essive-modal — —
inessive fentben fentekben
superessive fenten fenteken
adessive fentnél fenteknél
illative fentbe fentekbe
sublative fentre fentekre
allative fenthez fentekhez
elative fentből fentekből
delative fentről fentekről
ablative fenttől fentektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 fenté fenteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 fentéi fentekéi

Etymology 3

fen (“fen”, Chinese monetary subunit) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

Noun

fent

  1. accusative singular of fen

References
  1. fent in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading
  • fent in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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