different between aide vs adjuvant

English

Alternative forms

• aid

Etymology

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /e?d/
• Homophone: aid
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

aide (plural aides)

1. An assistant.
2. (military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

Translations

Anagrams

• Adie, daie, idea

Abinomn

Noun

aide

1. father

Asturian

Verb

aide

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of aidar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /a?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle French ayde, from Old French aide, aie, from aidier (modern Old French aider (“to help”)). The medial -d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.

Noun

aide f (plural aides)

1. help, support

   Synonym: secours m

2. (sports) assist

Derived terms

Noun

aide m or f (plural aides)

1. aide (person)

Etymology 2

From aider, with the third-person singular form corresponding to Latin adi?tat.

Verb

aide

1. first-person singular present indicative of aider
2. third-person singular present indicative of aider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of aider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of aider
5. second-person singular present imperative of aider

Further reading

• “aide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ayde, eyde, eide, eayde

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?d(?)/

Noun

aide (uncountable)

1. Help given; aid.
2. A tax levied for defence.
3. (rare) One who assists.

Related terms

• aiden
• aydaunt

Descendants

• English: aid
• Scots: aid

References

• “aide, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Alternative forms

• (very early) adiudha, aiudha
• (early) aiue, aie

Etymology

From aidier. The regular form would have been aie, which is in fact attested; aide is a remodeling on the verb.

Pronunciation

• (early) IPA^(key): /?ai?.d?/
• (late) IPA^(key): /??.d?/

Noun

aide f (oblique plural aides, nominative singular aide, nominative plural aides)

1. help; assistance; aid

Related terms

• aidier

Descendants

• ? Middle English: aide, ayde, eyde, eide, eayde
  • English: aid
  • Scots: aid
• Middle French: ayde
  • French: aide
    • ? English: aide

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

aide f

1. genitive singular of ad

English

Etymology

From Latin adiuv?ns, present participle of adiuv?re (“to help”), from ad (“to”) + iuv?re (“to help”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: '?j-?-v?nt, IPA^(key): /?æd?.?.v?nt/

Adjective

adjuvant

1. Helping; helpful; assisting. [from 16th c.]
2. (medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. [from 19th c.]
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 219:

     Adjuvant chemotherapy, Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper.

Synonyms

• ancillary, complementary, contributory, extra, supporting

Translations

Noun

adjuvant (plural adjuvants)

1. Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.]
2. (medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. [from 18th c.]
3. (pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. [from 19th c.]
4. (pesticide science) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself. [from mid 20th c.]
5. (immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. [from 20th c.]
   • Gay, Frederick P.; Claypole, Edit J. (1914) , “Specific Hyperleukocytosis: Studies In Typhoid Immunization”, in Archives of Internal Medicine?^[1], volume XIV, issue 5, DOI:10.1001/archinte.1914.00070170055004, ISSN 0730-188X, retrieved 16 April 2020, pages 662–670

     The well-known tropic action of immune serum as an adjuvant to phagocytosis suggested early in our studies that we might here be dealing with a similar phenomenon.

Synonyms

• accessory, assistant, attendant, satellite, secondary, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary.

Translations

Related terms

• adjutant
• aid
• aidance
• aidant
• aide

Further reading

• adjuvant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• adjuvant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• adjuvant at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

adjuvant (feminine singular adjuvante, masculine plural adjuvants, feminine plural adjuvantes)

1. adjuvant

Noun

adjuvant m (plural adjuvants)

1. adjuvant

Latin

Verb

adjuvant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjuv?