different between caller vs cid

English

Etymology

From Middle English callar, equivalent to call +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?l?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?k?l?/
• Rhymes: -??l?(r)
• Homophone: collar (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)

Noun

caller (plural callers)

1. (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.

   - I've got someone on the line.

   - Who's the caller?

2. A visitor.

   a gentleman caller

3. (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
4. (programming) A function that calls another (the callee).
5. A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
6. (dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.

Derived terms

• caller ID

Translations

Anagrams

• cellar, re-call, recall

Scots

Etymology

Alteration of calver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?l?r/

Adjective

caller (comparative mair caller, superlative maist caller)

1. Fresh (of food, especially fish).

   Wha'll buy my caller herrin’, / New drawn frae the Forth? (Caroline Oliphaunt, ‘Caller Herrin'’)

2. Cool.

Lushootseed

Pronoun

-cid

1. second-person singular patient suffix

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ið/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *k?id, from Proto-Indo-European *k?id (compare *k?is); compare Latin quid, Cornish pyth, Welsh pa.

Pronoun

cid

1. (interrogative) what?
   • c. 775, Táin Bó Fraích from the Book of Leinster, published in Táin bó Fraích (1974, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Wolfgang Meid, line 322

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^c20

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c22

Derived terms

Related terms

• cía

Descendants

• Irish: cad
• Scottish Gaelic: ciod
• Manx: quoid

Etymology 2

Univerbation of cía (“though”) +? is/ba (“is (indicative or subjunctive)”)

Verb

cid

1. though… is (indicative or subjunctive)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 92^a17

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