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cad

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cad"

Translingual

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cad

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

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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cad (plural cads)

  1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.[1]
    Synonyms: villain, dog, rascal, bounder
    • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
      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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See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cad

Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. to fall
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Irish

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Etymology

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Clipping of cad é, from early modern caidhe (“what is?”) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of? of what kind is?”),[1][2] due to analogy with copular phrases like is é, an é.

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Pronoun

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cad

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

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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cad

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

Somali

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Noun

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cad ?

  1. white

Welsh

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Etymology 1

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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

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cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)

  1. battle, army
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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cad

  1. impersonal preterite of cael

Mutation

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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.
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