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/
• 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
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, 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)

1. 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

1. (interrogative) what
2. (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

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

Somali

Noun

cad ?

1. 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)

1. battle, army

Derived terms

• Cadan
• cadoediad (“ceasefire”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• caed, cafwyd

Verb

cad

1. impersonal preterite of cael

Mutation