"Kurent" or "Korant" is the best-known traditional carnival figure of the entire region, as well as in all of Slovenia. The name is probably derived from the common noun "kurant" 'messenger, lackey, footman', borrowed from a Romance word from Latin "currens" 'running'—thus sharing a semantic base with the Cerkno term "lavfar". While "Kurent" groups might not all look exactly the same, it is the most popular and frequent traditional carnival figure in the Ptuj and Drava plains, and in the Haloze Hills.