different between padder vs madder

English

Etymology

pad +? -er

Noun

padder (plural padders)

1. Agent noun of pad; one who pads.

Anagrams

• draped, peddar

Danish

Noun

padder c

1. indefinite plural of padde

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

padder m or f

1. indefinite plural of padde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

padder f

1. indefinite plural of padde

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæd?(?)/, [?mad?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæd??/, [?mæ???]
• Rhymes: -æd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madar? (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *mod?ro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modr? (“blue”), and compare Irish madar (“madder”), Latvian madara (“madder”).

Noun

madder (countable and uncountable, plural madders)

1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
3. A dye made from the plant.
4. A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Synonyms

• (Rubia tinctorum): common madder, dyer's madder

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

madder (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Translations

See also

• bedstraw
• bluet
• genipap
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Adjective

madder

1. comparative form of mad: more mad

Etymology 3

From mead

Noun

madder (plural madders)

1. Obsolete form of mether.
   • c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast":

     Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,

     A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,

     O there is the sport! […]

References

• Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

Anagrams

• MedDRA, dermad, dream'd, marded

Middle English

Adjective

madder

1. comparative degree of mad