cad
- (international standards)ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3language code forCaddo.
Short forcaddie, fromScots, fromFrenchcadet, from dialectalcapdet(“chief, captain”), fromLatincapitellum, diminutive ofcaput(“head”).
cad (pluralcads)
- Alow-bred,presuming person; amean,vulgarfellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.[1]
- Synonyms:villain,dog,rascal,bounder
1921,Ben Travers, chapter 5, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC: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 selfishcads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- (archaic) A person who stands at the door of anomnibus to open and shut it, and toreceivefares; abus conductor.
- c.1835,Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (inSketches 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 itscad.
1851,Henry Mayhew,London Labour and the London Poor, published1861:I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff acad, as they call it.
- (UK, Ireland, obsolete, slang) Anidlehanger-on aboutinnyards.
person who stands at door
FromLate Latincadeō, cadēre, fromLatincadō, cadĕre. Compare Daco-Romaniancad, cădea.
cadfirst-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicativecadiorcade,past participlecãdzutã)
- tofall
Clipping ofcad é, from early moderncaidhe(“what is?”) fromOld Irishcote(“what is the nature of? of what kind is?”),[1][2] due to analogy with copular phrases likeisé,ané.
cad
- (interrogative)what
- Synonyms:cad é,céard
- (Munster)(interrogative)where
- Cad as duit? ―Where are you from?
- ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^E. G. Quin (1966) “IrishCote”, inÉriu, volume20, Royal Irish Academy,→JSTOR, pages140–150
- ^Finck, F. N. (1899)Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page146
cad
- inflection ofcădea:
- first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- third-personpluralpresentindicative
FromProto-Cushitic*ʕad-.
IPA(key): /ʕad̪/
cad ?
- white
FromMiddle Welshkad, kat, fromOld Welshcat, fromProto-Brythonic*kad(“battle”), fromProto-Celtic*katus (compareOld Irishcath), fromProto-Indo-European*kéh₃tus(“fight”).
cad f (pluralcadauorcadoedd)
- battle,army
cad
- impersonalpreterite ofcael
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
