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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad-. Doublet of at-.

Prefix

ad-

2. (no longer productive) Doing, enacting, forming a verb.

   accouple, admarginate, admixture, attune

4. Near, close to, adjacent.

   adaxonal, addental, admedial

6. Towards in direction or movement. (anatomy) Towards the midline of the body.

   adapical, adfluvial, adgerminal

8. (no longer productive) Intensifying, additionally.

   acclaim, adsignification, adspection

10. Along, alongside.

    admarginal, adnervular, adstratum

12. Appending and/or prepending. Adding from either side.

    adfix, adposition, affix

14. Modifying.

    adnominal, adverb, assoil

16. Atop or above in position.

    adatom, adcumulate, aggrade

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “ad-”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “ad-”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• D. A., D.A., DA, Da, da

Catalan

Prefix

ad-

1. ad-

Ido

Etymology

Prefix form of ad. Also based on Latin ad-.

Prefix

ad-

1. to (indicating that to which there is movement, tendency or position, with or without arrival)

   portar (“carry, bear”) → adportar (“bring, carry (to a person or place)”)

   ube (“where”) → adube (“where to (with motion), whither”)

Derived terms

Latin

Alternative forms

For euphony, ad- can assimilate the attached stem's initial consonant, becoming: a- (before sc, sp, st, and sometimes gn), ac- (before c and q), af- (before f), ag-, al-, ap-, ar-, as-, or at-.

Etymology

From the Latin preposition ad (“to, towards”), in turn from Proto-Italic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”).

Prefix

ad-

1. to
2. usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it often has the effect of intensifying the verbal action

See also

Lushootseed

Prefix

ad-

1. your (singular)

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ad-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognates include Latin ad and English at.

Prefix

ad-

1. to, towards
2. in many compounds, it has a purely intensive sense
3. augment infix used instead of ro- on verbs whose first prefix is com- and the stressed syllable starts with a consonant

   ‎con·birt (“you conceived”) + ‎ad- → ‎con·abairt (“you have conceived”) (forms of con·beir)

   ‎con·melt (“(s)he rubbed”) + ‎ad- → ‎con·amailt (“(s)he had rubbed”) (forms of con·meil)

   ‎·coscrad (“not destroyed”) + ‎ad- → ‎·comscarad (“had not destroyed”) (past subjunctive prototonic forms of con·scara)

   ‎con·gab (“it contained”) + ‎ad- → ‎con·acab (“it had contained”) (forms of con·gaib)

   ‎*·cotla + ‎ad- → ‎·comthala (subjunctive forms of con·tuili (“to sleep”))

Usage notes

• ad-, when used as an augment affix, vanishes in prototonic forms due to syncope. However, its presence may be detected via the different syncope patterns between forms augmented with ad- and those that were not.
• In deuterotonic verbs where ad- is the first prefix and the next sound is /t/, the d in the prefix may be dropped in its spelling.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: a- (no longer productive)

Mutation

References

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ad-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• a-

Prefix

ad-

1. ad- (near; at)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• at-

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ate-, from Proto-Celtic *ati-. from Proto-Indo-European *éti. Cognate with Cornish as-, English ed-, Latin et (“and”), Sanskrit अति (ati, “over-”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad/

Prefix

ad-

1. again, back, re-

   Synonym: ail-

   ‎ad- + ‎llais (“voice”) → ‎adlais (“echo”)

   ‎ad- + ‎talu (“to pay”) → ‎ad-dalu (“to refund”)

   ‎ad- + ‎blas (“taste”) → ‎adflas (“aftertaste”)

2. affirmative prefix, emphasises prefixed word

   ‎ad- + ‎cas (“hated, nasty”) → ‎atgas (“hateful, detestable”)

Derived terms

Mutation

References

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Prefix

ad-

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Allomorph of ö- (second-person prefix) used for stems that begin with a vowel a or e.

Inflection