adherent

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See also: adhérent and adhèrent

English

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Etymology

From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/, /əd-/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/, /əd-/
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Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

adherent sand
  1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
    • 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:
      Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
      And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.
  2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  3. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
  4. (medicine, of a person) Showing adherence to a treatment.
    • 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217:
      Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.

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Noun

adherent (plural adherents)

  1. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adhaerentem.

Pronunciation

Adjective

adherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

  1. adherent

Noun

adherent m or f by sense (plural adherents)

  1. adherent

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Latin

Verb

adhērent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adhaerēns. First attested in 1588.

Pronunciation

Noun

adherent m pers (female equivalent adherentka)

  1. (dated or literary) adherent, henchman, supporter
    Synonyms: poplecznik, rzecznik, stronnik, zwolennik
    Antonyms: adwersarz, oponent, przeciwnik

Declension

Declension of adherent
singular plural
nominative adherent adherenci/adherenty (deprecative)
genitive adherenta adherentów
dative adherentowi adherentom
accusative adherenta adherentów
instrumental adherentem adherentami
locative adherencie adherentach
vocative adherencie adherenci

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References

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adherent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “adherent”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adxěrent/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)

  1. adherent

Declension

Declension of adherent
singular plural
nominative adhèrent adherenti
genitive adherenta adhèrenātā
dative adherentu adherentima
accusative adherenta adherente
vocative adherente adherenti
locative adherentu adherentima
instrumental adherentom adherentima

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