adherent
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- adhærent (archaic)
Etymology edit
From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)
- Adhesive, sticking to something.
- 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:
- Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.
- Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
- (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
- (medicine, of a person) Showing adherence to a treatment.
- 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, , page 1217:
- Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.
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Translations edit
adhesive
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that has the quality of clinging
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Noun edit
adherent (plural adherents)
- A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
Translations edit
a person who has membership in some group
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References edit
- “adherent, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin adhaerentem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
adherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)
Noun edit
adherent m or f by sense (plural adherents)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “adherent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin edit
Verb edit
adhērent
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin adhaerēns.[1] First attested in 1588.[2]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /atˈxɛ.rɛnt/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /atˈxɛ.rɛnt/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛrɛnt
- Syllabification: ad‧he‧rent
Noun edit
adherent m pers (female equivalent adherentka)
- (dated or literary) adherent, henchman, supporter
- Synonyms: poplecznik, rzecznik, stronnik, zwolennik
- Antonyms: adwersarz, oponent, przeciwnik
Declension edit
Declension of adherent
singular | plural | |
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nominative | adherent | adherenci/adherenty (deprecative) |
genitive | adherenta | adherentów |
dative | adherentowi | adherentom |
accusative | adherenta | adherentów |
instrumental | adherentem | adherentami |
locative | adherencie | adherentach |
vocative | adherencie | adherenci |
Related terms edit
noun
References edit
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adherent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “adherent”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Further reading edit
- adherent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- adherent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Danuta Lankiewicz (05.01.2014) “ADHERENT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adherent”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[1]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adherent”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 7
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)
Declension edit
Declension of adherent
singular | plural | |
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nominative | adhèrent | adherenti |
genitive | adherenta | adhèrenātā |
dative | adherentu | adherentima |
accusative | adherenta | adherente |
vocative | adherente | adherenti |
locative | adherentu | adherentima |
instrumental | adherentom | adherentima |
Synonyms edit
- (follower): prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk
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