agent
Dutch (Brabantic)
/aːˈɣɛnt/
noun
Definitions
- a police officer
- an undercover agent
- an agent, a surrogate (one who acts on behalf of another)
Etymology
Borrowed from French agent derived from Latin agēns.
Origin
Latin
agēns
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- agent English
- agens Latin
- agentia Latin
- agēns Latin
- agēns, agens, agentis Latin
- Agent German
- Agentur German
- agente Italian
- agens Dutch, Flemish
- agente Dutch, Flemish
- agentschap Dutch, Flemish
- agentuur Dutch, Flemish
- dubbel Dutch, Flemish
- dubbelagent Dutch, Flemish
- dubbelagente Dutch, Flemish
- hoofd Dutch, Flemish
- persagentschap Dutch, Flemish
- politie Dutch, Flemish
- politieagent Dutch, Flemish
- politieagente Dutch, Flemish
- reis Dutch, Flemish
- reisagent Dutch, Flemish
- wijk Dutch, Flemish
- wijkagent Dutch, Flemish
- agent French
- agente French
- ажан Russian
- agente Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- agent Danish
- agent Serbo-Croatian
- agent Catalan, Valencian
- agent Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- آژان Persian
- agen Indonesian
- hopagen Indonesian