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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.

   Synonyms: villain, dog
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. (Britain, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.

Derived terms

• caddish

Translations

See also

• no way to treat a lady

Anagrams

• ACD, ADC, CDA, D.Ac., DAC, DAc, DAc., DCA

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cadu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cade?, from Latin cad?. Compare Daco-Romanian c?dea, cad.

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

From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *k?id, from Proto-Indo-European *k?id, compare *k?is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad??/

Pronoun

cad

1. (interrogative) what
2. (Munster) (interrogative) where

Synonyms

• céard
• cad é
• caidé

Derived terms

• cad chuige (“why”)
• cad ina thaobh (“why”)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “cad” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 103.
• "cad" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad/
• Rhymes: -ad

Verb

cad

1. first-person singular present indicative of c?dea
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of c?dea
3. third-person plural present indicative of c?dea

Somali

Noun

cad ?

1. white

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?d/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *kad (“battle”), from Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (“fight”).

Noun

cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)

1. battle, army

Derived terms

• Cadan

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• caed, cafwyd

Verb

cad

1. impersonal preterite of cael

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.

Adjective

cade (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

Verb

cade (third-person singular simple present cades, present participle cading, simple past and past participle caded)

1. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

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Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French cade or Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. western prickly juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. (archaic) A cask or barrel.

   A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.

Usage notes

• Used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish.

References

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

Anagrams

• CEDA, aced, dace, deca-, ecad

Interlingua

Verb

cade

1. present of cader
2. imperative of cader

Italian

Verb

cade

1. third-person singular present of cadere

Anagrams

• ceda
• deca

Latin

Verb

cade

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cad?

Noun

cade

1. vocative singular of cadus

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (j?da).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?????d?/

Noun

cade f (Arabic spelling ?????)

1. road, street

Declension

Derived terms