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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ad"
English
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)): a suffix forming feminine nouns.
Suffix
-ad
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Latin ad (“at”). Coined by British anatomist John Barclay.
Suffix
-ad
Coordinate terms
- (didn't catch on) -en
Derived terms
Anagrams
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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ad
- (possessive suffix) your (second-person singular informal, single possession)
- (fraction-forming suffix) -th. Added to a cardinal number to form a fraction.
- (verb-forming suffix) Added to a stem to form a verb.
- (settlement suffix) Suffix in names of settlements.
- Sarkad, Várad
Usage notes
- (possessive suffix) Variants:
- -d is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- -ad is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -od is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -ed is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -öd is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- (fraction-forming suffix) Variants:
- (verb-forming suffix) Variants:
- (settlement suffix) Variants:
Derived terms
See also
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Suffix
-ad
- (archaic, nonstandard) Used to form past participle form of many weak verbs
Alternative forms
Old English
Suffix
-ad
- alternative form of -od
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-tus, i.e. from *-atus, *-ātus, *-etus, and *-ītus.
Suffix
-ad m (forms the genitive singular in -(a)tho)
- suffix forming verbal nouns
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From the various thematic vowels of verb stems plus Proto-Celtic *-to, i.e. from *-ato, *-āto, *-eto, and *-īto.
Suffix
-ad
- suffix forming the third-person singular imperative form
- suffix forming the third-person singular imperfect indicative form
- suffix forming the third-person singular past subjunctive form
- suffix forming the third-person singular conditional form of reduplicated and ē-future stems
- suffix forming the singular passive conjunct preterite form of s-preterite stems
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Serbo-Croatian
Suffix
-ād f (Cyrillic spelling -а̄д, noun-forming suffix)
- suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a collective noun
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- Klajn, Ivan (2003), Tvorba reči u savremenom sprskom jeziku 2: Sufiksacija i Konverzija, Belgrade: SANU, page(s) 22
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Spanish
Etymology
From Latin -āte (second-person plural present active imperative ending of first conjugation verbs).
Suffix
-ad
Swedish
Suffix
-ad
- -ed, used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
- suffix forming past participle
Derived terms
Anagrams
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Welsh
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Suffix
-ad m (plural -adau)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Brythonic *-ad, from earlier *-atus, a late (British) variant of *-ātus, used to form verbal nouns from Celtic ā-stem verbs.
Suffix
-ad m (plural -aid)
- suffix indicating an agent noun: -er, -or
- person who comes from somewhere or is classed by something, -ian, -ist
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English -ate, altered in the same manner as basged (“basket”).
Suffix
-ad m (plural -adau)
- (chemistry) -ate, suffix denoting one of a group of related compounds - nitrad (“nitrate”), sylffad (“sulfate”).
Derived terms
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “-ad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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Yapese
Suffix
-ad
- Plural (3 or more) pronoun marker.
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