English Online Dictionary. What means cad? What does cad mean?
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
- IPA(key): /kæd/
- Rhymes: -æd
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
- (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.
- c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)
- (UK, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.
Derived terms
- caddish
Translations
See also
- no way to treat a lady
References
Anagrams
- ACD, ADC, CDA, D.Ac., DAC, DAc, DAc., DCA
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- cadu
Etymology
From Late Latin cadeō, cadēre, from Latin cadō, cadĕre. Compare Daco-Romanian cad, cădea.
Verb
cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)
- I fall.
Related terms
- cãdeari/cãdeare
- cãderi
- cãdzut
- cãdzui
- scad
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
- IPA(key): /kad̪ˠ/
Pronoun
cad
- (interrogative) what
- (Munster) (interrogative) where
- Cad as duit? ― Where are you from?
Synonyms
- céard
- cad é
- caidé
Derived terms
- cad chuige (“why”)
- cad ina thaobh (“why”)
References
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
- IPA(key): /kad/
- Rhymes: -ad
Verb
cad
- inflection of cădea:
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- third-person plural present indicative
Somali
Noun
cad ?
- white
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaːd/
- Rhymes: -aːd
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
- Cadan
- cadoediad (“ceasefire”)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- caed, cafwyd
Verb
cad
- impersonal preterite of cael