sunt

From Proto-Italic *sent, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sénti.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊnt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsun̪t̪]

sunt

1. third-person plural present active indicative of sum

   Mārcus et Lūcius sunt nautae.

   Marcus and Lucius are sailors.

   Sunt iuvenēs.

   They are young.

   Sunt silvae in prōvinciā.

   There are forests in the province.

From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”) of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sundą.

sunt (verbal noun suntal or sunteil, past participle suntit)

1. (nautical) to sound, fathom, chart by sounding

sunt

1. neuter singular of sunn

sunt

1. neuter singular of sunn

• sont

sunt

1. (Anglo-Norman) third-person plural present indicative of estre

sunt

1. alternative spelling of sund

• sînt, sânt

From Latin sum (“I am”) and sunt (“they are”). For sense 1, compare Romansch sunt, sont (“I am”) (attested in Reams, Zuoz, Bivio, Sils), Lombard sonto (“I am”) and Emilian sonto (“I am”) (attested in Legenda di San Petronio, 15th century, Bologna).

• IPA^(key): /sunt/, /sɨnt/

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sunt

1. first-person singular present indicative of fi

   Sunt un bărbat.

   I'm a man.

   Sunt un băiat de șapte ani.

   I'm a seven-year-old boy. (literally, I'm a boy of seven years.)

2. third-person plural present indicative of fi

   Ei sunt bărbați.

   They are men.

• This word was spelled sînt until the 1993 spelling reform (which also changed sîntem to suntem and sînteți to sunteți). Indeed, the sînt spelling remains common in Moldova and is still used by some in Romania (especially among the older generation). It was also spelled sânt before the 1953 spelling reform.

• îs

From Old Frisian send, from Proto-West Germanic *sindi, from Proto-Germanic *sindi. Cognates include North Frisian san and German sind.

• IPA^(key): /sʊnt/
• Hyphenation: sunt

sunt

1. plural indicative present of weze

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “weze”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

sunt

1. indefinite neuter singular of sund

• snut