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Definitions and meaning of ad

ad

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æd/
  • Rhymes: -æd
  • Homophone: add

Etymology 1

Clipping of advertisement.

Noun

ad (plural ads)

  1. advertisement.
    I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.
Synonyms
  • advert
Derived terms
  • adless
  • adware
  • want ad
Translations

Etymology 2

From a shortening of the word advantage.

Noun

ad (plural ads)

  1. (tennis) advantage
  2. (debating) advantage
    ads and disads

Etymology 3

From Latin ad (“to, on”).

Preposition

ad

  1. to, toward
Related terms

Anagrams

  • D. A., D.A., DA, Da, da

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑd]

Noun

ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)

  1. name, first name
  2. (grammar) noun
    Synonym: isim

Declension

Derived terms

  • adbaad (“name by name”)
  • soyad (“last name”)
  • ata adı (“patronymic”)

Blagar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad/

Noun

ad

  1. fire

References

  • A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
  • The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
  • Stokhof (1975)

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse at, from Proto-Germanic *at.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [að], [a]
  • Homophone: af

Preposition

ad

  1. by
  2. at

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaðˀ]

Interjection

ad

  1. ew, bleah
Synonyms
  • adr
  • bvadr
  • føj
  • uf

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • ád (archaic)

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ëmta- or Proto-Finno-Ugric *amta-. Cognates include Finnish antaa and Estonian andma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ ˈɒd]
  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Verb

ad

  1. (transitive) to give (to someone -nak/-nek)
    Synonyms: átad, odaad, ajándékoz, nyújt, átnyújt
  2. (transitive) to throw, organize, hold, give (a party/celebration/dinner, especially in honour of someone)
    Synonyms: rendez, szervez, tart, csap
    • 1854, Mór Jókai, Egy magyar nábob,[1] chapter 19; translated by R. Nisbet Bain (chapter 11):[2]
      Könnyű a férjnek azt mondani, én holnap vagy egy hónap múlva nagy ünnepélyt adok, hivatalos lesz rá az egész környék, akiket ismerek és olyanok is, akiket sohasem láttam. A többi az asszony gondja.
      It is easy enough for us men-folk to say, “I will give a great dinner-party to-morrow, or a month hence; and I will invite the whole country-side to it. I will invite not only those I know, but those I have never seen;” but it is our women-folk who have to take thought for it.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

  • (to give): ad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
  • (for [prefix of numbered issues; formal]): ad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
  • ad in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress)

Ido

Alternative forms

  • (apocopic form) a

Etymology

Borrowing from French à, Italian ad, Spanish a, all ultimately from Latin ad, from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad/

Preposition

ad

  1. to (movement, tendency or position)
    Antonyms: de, ek
  2. dative: indirect object
  3. to (object of action, thought, desire)
  4. to (comparison or relation)
  5. proportion; total

Derived terms

  • ad-
  • al

Related terms

  • ed (“and”)
  • od (“or”)

See also

  • vers
  • til

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əd̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • dod, dod’, dot

Contraction

ad (triggers lenition)

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of do do (“to/for your sg”).

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • id, it

Contraction

ad (triggers lenition)

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of i do (“in your sg”).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad/

Preposition

ad

  1. to, at, in (used before a vowel for euphony instead of a)

Anagrams

  • da, da', dà

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognates include English at.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ad/, [ad̪]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad/, [ad̪]

Preposition

ad (+ accusative)

  1. (direction) toward, to
  2. up to (indicating direction upwards)
  3. near, by, close by, at, to (indicating location)
  4. against, on, upon (indicating position)
  5. at, about, around, on, in (indicating a point in time)
  6. until, to, up to, till (indicating the extent of time)
  7. for, to, toward (indicating purpose or aim)
  8. in order to, to, for (indicating means)
  9. in comparison with, in comparison to, in relation to
  10. according to (indicating conformity)
  11. in consequence of
  12. against, at (indicating movement 'toward' but in a hostile manner)
  13. among, amongst (indicating the sharing of a characteristic)

Usage notes

  • The word ad is an antithesis to ab (just as in is to ex; in a progressive order of relation, ad denotes, first, the direction toward an object; then the reaching of or attaining to it; and finally, the being at or near it.)
  • Often used of geographical position of a place in reference to the points of compass, with the verbs iaceō (“lie, be situated”), vergō (“incline, slope”), spectō (“observe, see”) etc.:
    Asia iacet ad meridiem et austrum, Europa ad septentriones et aquilonem.
    Asia lies near the prime meridian and the south, Europe near the northern regions and northern wind. (There are two words for north.)
    Ad Atticam vergente.
    Inclining to Attic.
  • When appended to the beginning of a word, ad often becomes ap- when followed by ‘p’, as in appretiō, from pretium. But note that adpretiō is also found.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: a
  • Franco-Provençal: a
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: a
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Corsican: à
    • Dalmatian: a
    • Italian: a, ad
    • Sicilian: a
  • Old Occitan: [Term?]
    • Occitan: a
    • Catalan: a
  • Old French: [Term?]
    • Middle French: [Term?]
      • French: à
        • Norwegian Bokmål: à, a
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: a
  • West Iberian:
    • Extremaduran: a
    • Mozarabic: ad, a
    • Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
      • Aragonese: a
    • Old Leonese: [Term?]
      • Asturian: a
      • Leonese: a
      • Mirandese: a
    • Old Portuguese: a
      • Fala: a
      • Galician: a
      • Portuguese: a
        • Indo-Portuguese: a
    • Old Spanish: [Term?]
      • Spanish: a
  • → English: ad

References

  • ad in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ad in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ad in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Manx

Pronoun

ad

  1. Third person plural.
    they, them

Meriam

Noun

ad

  1. story

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aidaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːd/

Noun

ād m

  1. fire, funeral pyre

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: ād

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin ad.

Preposition

ad

  1. Alternative form of a (to; towards)

Etymology 2

From Latin habet.

Verb

ad

  1. Alternative form of a; third-person singular present indicative of avoir

Pumpokol

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaʒ (“I”). Compare Assan and Arin aj and Kott ai.

Pronoun

ad

  1. I (first-person subjective singular)

Related terms

  • adɨŋ
  • etnɨn
  • ádɨŋ

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English hat (compare Irish hata).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [at̪]

Noun

ad f (genitive singular aide, plural adan or adaichean)

  1. hat

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آد‎ (ad, “name”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ad, “name”), from Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑt̪/

Noun

ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)

  1. name, first name, last name
  2. noun
  3. reputation, fame, name, repute

Declension

Synonyms

  • isim
  • san

Related terms

  • adlı
  • adsız
  • adamak
  • atamak

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ад (ad).

Noun

ad

  1. hell, underworld

Inflection

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “ад”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Preposition

ad

  1. for, in order to, to

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːd/

Verb

ad

  1. Soft mutation of gad.

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org
  • (colloquial) an advertisement.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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