ac

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English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

Pronunciation depends on if this is an initialism, in which case it is pronounced as the letters A and C, or if it is an abbreviation, in which case it is pronounced as the full word it abbreviates.

The pronunciation of the medical abbreviation depends on the preference of the user or reader, and whether it is translated from Latin or not.

Noun

ac (plural acs)

1. account; money of account
2. alicyclic
3. Abbreviation of acre.
4. Alternative letter-case form of AC (“air conditioning”).
5. (electricity) Alternative letter-case form of AC (“alternating current”).

Adjective

ac (not comparable)

1. (medicine) ante cibum, before meals

Etymology 2

ac

1. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of accompany, accompanying, accompanied, accompaniment, accompanist, or etc..
2. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of accomplish, accomplishing, accomplished, accomplishment, or etc..

See also

• ac etiam

Anagrams

• ca, CA, C.A., ca., &ca., &ca

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• acu

Etymology

From Latin acus. Compare Romanian ac.

Noun

ac n (plural atsi/atse)

1. needle

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āč (“hunger”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰲 (ač /⁠*āç⁠/, “hungry”), Turkish aç, see there for more cognates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑd͡ʒ], [ɑd͡z]
• (Tabriz) IPA^(key): [ɑʒ], [ad͡z]

Adjective

ac (comparative daha ac, superlative ən ac)

1. hungry

   Antonym: tox

   Acından ölürəm. ― I am starving; I am dying of hunger. (literally, “of its hunger”)

   Acın andı and olmaz. ― An oath given by a hungry person is no oath. (proverb)

   Ac elə bilər hamı acdır, tox elə bilər hamı toxdur. ― The hungry think that all are hungry, the sated think that all are sated. (proverb)

Derived terms

References

Chinese

Pronunciation

Noun

ac

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) alternative form of AC

Related terms

• account

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːk/

Pronoun

āc (plural āc ihqueh or āquihqueh)

1. who?

Related terms

• ācah
• āquin
• ayāc

References

• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 1
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 210

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak/

Preposition

ac

1. (Quebec, informal) pronunciation spelling of avec

Ladin

Noun

ac

1. plural of at

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈak]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈak]
• Note: the consonant is geminate /kː/ if a vowel follows.

Conjunction

ac

1. alternative form of atque

Usage notes

• Usually found before words beginning with consonants.

Descendants

• Italian: a (traces)
• Sardinian: a (traces)

References

• “ac”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ac”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ak, ah, ach, oc, occ, ok, auh, auch, auȝ

Etymology

From Old English ac, from Proto-West Germanic *ak, from Proto-Germanic *ak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak/

Conjunction

ac

1. but

References

• “ac, conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-12.

Middle Welsh

Alternative forms

• a

Conjunction

ac

1. and

Preposition

ac

1. with

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *aik.

Alternative forms

• ǣċ, aac

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːk/

Noun

āc f

1. oak (wood or tree)
2. (poetic) an oaken ship
3. (masculine) (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᚪ (a)

Declension

Feminine senses relating to oak:

Strong consonant stem:

Strong ō-stem:

Name of the rune:

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

• Middle English: ook, ok, ak, ake
  • English: oak
  • Scots: aik, ake, yik

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ak.

Alternative forms

• ah — Northumbrian
• ach, oc

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑk/

Conjunction

ac

1. but

2. but instead: in this sense ac should sometimes be translated as "but," but most often it is best left untranslated
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"

Descendants

• Middle English: ac, ak, ah

Old Irish

Preposition

ac

1. alternative form of oc

Old Saxon

Conjunction

ac

1. alternative form of ak

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin acus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak/

Noun

ac n (plural ace)

1. needle

Declension

Related terms

• acar
• aculeu
• ață

Further reading

• “ac”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh (h)ac, from Proto-Brythonic *atkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ét-kʷe (compare Breton hag and Cornish hag); identical to Latin atque. Doublet of Welsh ag.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ak/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): /aɡ/
• Rhymes: -ak

Conjunction

ac

1. prevocalic form of a (“and”)