optant

English

Etymology

opt +‎ -ant

Noun

optant (plural optants)

  1. A person who lives in an region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
    • 1914, W. R. Prior, Oxford Pamphlets: North Sleswick under Prussian Rule‎, London: Oxford University Press, page 9:
      According to one authority, nearly 40,000 of the Sleswick Danes had become 'optants'—that is, had taken the 'option' of Danish nationality—or had emigrated, by the end of 1880.
  2. A person who opts into, out of, or for something.

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

optant

  1. present participle of optar

French

Verb

optant

  1. present participle of opter

Latin

Verb

optant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of optō
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