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cad

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

cad From the web:

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  • what cadillac converters are worth the most
  • what cad stands for
  • what cadence should i bike at
  • what cadillac has 3 rows
  • what cadillac can be flat towed
  • what cadillacs have a v8
  • what cadet corps was levi in


cand

English

Noun

cand (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of kand

Anagrams

  • NACD, cDNA, cdna

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

  • kand

Etymology

From Latin quando. Compare Romanian când, Italian quando, Portuguese quando, French quand.

Adverb

cand

  1. when

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  • what candy is gluten free
  • what candy is vegan
  • what candy does mars make
  • what candy does hershey make
  • what candy bars are gluten free
  • what candy has the most sugar
  • what candy has pork in it
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