From Middle French pretendent, from the present participle of pretendre (“to claim”). By surface analysis, pretend +‎ -ent.

pretendent (plural pretendents)

1. Alternative form of pretendant.

pretendent (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of pretendant.
   • c. 1595 September (indicated as 1594), R. Doleman [pseudonym; attributed to Robert Persons], “Of the Great and Generall Controuersie and Contention betweene the Two Houses Royal of Lancaster and York,[…]”, in A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland (English Recusant Literature, 1558–1640; 104), Menston, Yorkshire: Scolar Press, published 1972, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:

     [T]he kingdome […] after the death of the foreſaid king Richard […] belonged to Edmond mortimer Earle of march, then liuing, and after his death to Anne Mortimer his ſiſter, marryed to Richard earle of Cãbridge father to this Richard pretendent duke of Yorke, […]

   • 1620, Pietro Soaue Polano [pseudonym; Paolo Sarpi], translated by Nathanael Brent, “Two New Legates Are Created”, in The Historie of the Councel of Trent.[…], 2nd edition (1629), London: […] Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill,[…], →OCLC, book 7, page 681:

     But the Pope being reſolute, and diſpleaſed that the matter was not ſo ſecretly carried, anſwered freely, that the Cardinall of Loraine came to the Councell as Head of one of the pretendent parties, and that he would depute thoſe who were Neutrals, and without intereſts.

   • 1641, Iohn Iohnson, The Academy of Love. Describing the Folly of Young-Men, and the Fallacie of Women., London: […] H[umphrey] Bluden,[…], →OCLC, page 24:

     But ſuppoſe the pretendent curteſan bee but a phantaſme, a ſhadow, a meere maſſe of penury, like unto this decayed peece of miſery (pointing at me) what is your rule?

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾə.tənˈden]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pɾə.tənˈdent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.tenˈdent]

pretendent m (plural pretendents, feminine pretendenta, feminine plural pretendentes)

1. pretender

Borrowed from French prétendant or German Prätendent.

• IPA^(key): /prɛˈtɛn.dɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛndɛnt
• Syllabification: pre‧ten‧dent

pretendent m pers (female equivalent pretendentka)

1. claimant, pretendant, pretender

• pretendent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pretendent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French prétendant.

pretendent m (plural pretendenți)

1. pretender
2. suitor

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