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actant

noun

Etymology

Simultaneously coined in English and French by Bruno Latour from action + -ant

  1. derived from *h₂éǵeti✻
  2. derived from āctiō
  3. derived from aucion
  4. inherited from accioun
  5. suffixed as actant — “action + ant”

Definitions

  1. That which acts

    That which acts; a source of action or activity.

  2. Any of the participants, such as the subject or object, in a grammatical clause.

The neighborhood

Derived

actantial

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for actant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA