maintenant
French
adv
Definitions
- now, currently
Etymology
Suffix from French maintenir (maintain), main (hand) + French tenant.
Origin
French
tenant
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- maintain English
- with the manner English
- manus Latin
- mano Italian
- mantenere Italian
- arrière-main French
- avant-main French
- baisemain French
- bonne-main French
- lieutenant French
- main French
- maintenance French
- mainteneur French
- maintenir French
- manette French
- menotte French
- tenant French
- tenir French
- maintenir Old French
- tenant Old French
- menține Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- main Middle French
- men Haitian, Haitian Creole
- lame Mauritian Creole
- men Louisiana Creole French