cad
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cad (plural cads)
- A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
- 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?
- (historical) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
- 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)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
person who stands at door
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mean fellow
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *cadeō, from Latin cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian cădea, cad.
VerbEdit
cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)
- I fall.
Related termsEdit
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *kʷid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
cad
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- cad chuige (“why”)
- cad ina thaobh (“why”)
Further readingEdit
- 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 Gaeḋilge 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.
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
cad
- first-person singular present indicative of cădea
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cădea
- third-person plural present indicative of cădea
SomaliEdit
NounEdit
cad ?
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Brythonic *kad (“battle”), from Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₃tus (“fight”).
NounEdit
cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
cad
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |