cond
See also: cond.
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology 1 edit
Clipping.
Adjective edit
cond (not comparable)
- Clipping of conditional.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.
Verb edit
cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)
- Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
- 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:
- Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]
Further reading edit
- “cond”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Lombard edit
Alternative forms edit
- con (Western and Eastern orthographies)
- cont (Western orthographies)
- co (apocopic form)
- coun (Cremonese orthography)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kon(d̥)/ (Eastern and Western)
- IPA(key): /kond̥/, [kunt] (Western, followed by article)
- IPA(key): /ˈkond(e)/, [ˈkond(e)] (Eastern, followed by article)
Preposition edit
cond
Usage notes edit
- Traditionally, it's written in two ways according to the context: it's normally spelled con, whilst cond (traditionally spelled cont in Western orthographies and con d' in Eastern orthographies) is used when followed by an article. Certain dialects, though, use the form cond also when followed by a word different than an article. Thus, modern orthographies tend to use always and only cond.