different between corpse vs cad

English

Alternative forms

• corse (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Displaced native Old English l?? (whence modern English word lich). The ?p? was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus. The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while playing a dead body.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??ps/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??ps/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?ko?ps/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ps

Noun

corpse (plural corpses)

1. A dead body.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:corpse

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:corpse.
2. (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:body

Related terms

Translations

Verb

corpse (third-person singular simple present corpses, present participle corpsing, simple past and past participle corpsed)

1. (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
2. (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.

Anagrams

• Cosper, Crespo, Pecors, copers, corpes, scoper

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