cad
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cad
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Etymology edit
Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).
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cad (plural cads)
- A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.[1]
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- (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.
- c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)
- (UK, Ireland, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.
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Etymology edit
From Late Latin cadeō, cadēre, from Latin cadō, cadĕre. Compare Daco-Romanian cad, cădea.
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cad first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative cadi or cade, past participle cãdzutã)
- to fall
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Etymology edit
Clipping of cad é, from early modern caidhe (“what is?”) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of? of what kind is?”),[1][2] due to analogy with copular phrases like is é, an é.
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cad
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- cad as duit? (“where are you from?”)
- cad chuige (“why”)
- cad ina thaobh (“why”)
References edit
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150
Further reading edit
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 103
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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cad
- inflection of cădea:
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cad ?
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From Middle Welsh kad, kat, from Old Welsh cat, from Proto-Brythonic *kad (“battle”), from Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₃tus (“fight”).
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cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)
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cad
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cad | gad | nghad | chad |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |