cad

See also:Appendix:Variations of "cad"

Translingual

Symbol

cad

1. (international standards)ISO 639-2&ISO 639-3language codeforCaddo.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Caddo terms

English

Etymology

Short forcaddie,fromScots,fromFrenchcadet,from dialectalcapdet(“chief, captain”),fromLatincapitellum,diminutive ofcaput(“head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kæd/

  • Audio(Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes:-æd

Noun

cad(pluralcads)

1. Alow-bred,presumingperson; amean,vulgarfellow,especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.

   Synonyms:villain,dog,rascal,bounder

   • 1921,Ben Travers,chapter 5, inA Cuckoo in the Nest,Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company,published1925,→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 selfishcadswhose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

2. (archaic)A person who stands at the door of anomnibusto open and shut it, and toreceivefares;abus conductor.
   • c.1835,Charles Dickens,"Omnibuses" (inSketches 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 itscad.

3. (UK,Ireland,obsolete,slang)Anidlehanger-onaboutinnyards.

Derived terms

• caddess
• caddish
• caddism

Translations

person who stands at door

• Dutch:kaartjesverkoperm,kaartjesknipper(nl)m,controleur(nl)m
• Polish:konduktor(pl)(omnibusu)
• Spanish:boletero

mean fellow

• Bulgarian:простак(bg)m(prostak),грубиян(bg)m(grubijan)
• Czech:nevychovanec(cs)m,hulvát(cs)m,sprosťák(cs)m
• Dutch:vlerk(nl)m
• Polish:łajdak(pl)m
• Russian:грубия́н(ru)m(grubiján),пошляк(ru)m(pošljak),хам(ru)m(xam)
• Spanish:villano(es)

See also

• no way to treat a lady

Anagrams

• ACD,ADC,CDA,D.Ac.,DAC,DAc,DAc.,DCA

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cadu

Etymology

FromLate Latincadeō, cadēre,fromLatincadō, cadĕre.Compare Daco-Romaniancad, cădea.

Verb

cadfirst-singular present indicative(third-person singular present indicativecadiorcade,past participlecãdzutã)

1. tofall

Related terms

• cãdeari/cãdeare
• cãderi
• cãdzut
• cãdzui
• scad

Irish

Etymology

Clippingofcad é,from early moderncaidhe(“what is?”)fromOld Irishcote(“what is the nature of? of what kind is?”),due to analogy with copular phrases likeisé,ané.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kad̪ˠ/

Pronoun

cad

1. (interrogative)what

   Synonyms:cad é,céard

2. (Munster)(interrogative)where

   Cadas duit?―Whereare you from?

Derived terms

• cad as duit?(“where are you from?”)
• cad chuige(“why”)
• cad ina thaobh(“why”)

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S.(1904) “cad”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla,1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page103
• Ó Dónaill, Niall(1977) “cad”,inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla,Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kad/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ad

Verb

cad

1. inflection ofcădea:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
   2. third-personpluralpresentindicative

Somali

Noun

cad?

1. white

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kaːd/
• Rhymes:-aːd

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Welshkad, kat,fromOld Welshcat,fromProto-Brythonic*kad(“battle”),fromProto-Celtic*katus(compareOld Irishcath), fromProto-Indo-European*kéh₃tus(“fight”).

Noun

cadf(pluralcadauorcadoedd)

1. battle,army

Derived terms

• Cadan
• cadoediad(“ceasefire”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• caed,cafwyd

Verb

cad

1. impersonalpreteriteofcael

Mutation

Mutated formsofcad

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cad	gad	nghad	chad

Note:Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.