payant
French
Etymology
From payer (“to pay”) + -ant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛ.jɑ̃/ ~ /pe.jɑ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: payants
- Rhymes: -jɑ̃
Adjective
payant (feminine payante, masculine plural payants, feminine plural payantes)
- paying, which pays
- not free, not free of charge, nonfree, that costs money, that charges money, paid (as in paid service)
- Antonym: gratuit
- fruitful, that pays off
Participle
payant
- present participle of payer
Further reading
- “payant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.