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Translingual
Symbol
cad
- (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
Noun
cad (plural cads)
- 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?
- (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.
- (UK, Ireland, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.
Derived terms
Translations
person who stands at door
See also
References
Anagrams
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)
- to fall
Related terms
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
- (interrogative) what
- Synonyms: cad é, céard
- (Munster) (interrogative) where
- Cad as duit? ― Where are you from?
Derived terms
References
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ E. G. Quin (1966), “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 103
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
cad
- inflection of cădea:
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- third-person plural present indicative
Somali
Noun
cad ?
- 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)
- battle, army
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Verb
cad
- impersonal preterite of cael
Mutation