hauriant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A coat of arms with two fish haurient addorsed.

From Latin hauriēns (“drawing (water, etc.); draining”), the present participle of hauriō (“to draw (water, etc.); to drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“to draw water”).[1]

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Adjective[edit]

hauriant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Of a fish, etc.: in a vertical orientation, with its head up (to chief) and tail down (to base).
    Antonym: urinant
    three salmon hauriant

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Compare “hauriant, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1898.

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Verb[edit]

hauriant

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of hauriō
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