cad

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Translingual

Symbol

cad

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Caddo.

English

Etymology

Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (chief, captain), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (head).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæd/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æd

Noun

cad (plural cads)

  1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
    Synonyms: villain, dog, rascal, bounder
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. [] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
  2. (archaic) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
    • c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)
      We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.
  3. (UK, Ireland, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin cadeō, cadēre, from Latin cadō, cadĕre. Compare Daco-Romanian cad, cădea.

Verb

cad first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative cadi or cade, past participle cãdzutã)

  1. to fall

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Irish

Etymology

Clipping of cad é, from early modern caidhe (what is?) from Old Irish cote (what is the nature of? of what kind is?), due to analogy with copular phrases like is é, an é.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

cad

  1. (interrogative) what
    Synonyms: cad é, céard
  2. (Munster) (interrogative) where
    Cad as duit?Where are you from?

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References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ E. G. Quin (1966), “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150

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Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

cad

  1. inflection of cădea:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Somali

Noun

cad ?

  1. white

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh kad, kat, from Old Welsh cat, from Proto-Brythonic *kad (battle), from Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₃tus (fight).

Noun

cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)

  1. battle, army
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Etymology 2

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Verb

cad

  1. impersonal preterite of cael

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cad gad nghad chad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.