adder
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ADDERCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)neh₁-#ADDERFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ADDERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ADDER nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#ADDERCategory:English terms derived from Old English#ADDER nǣdre (“snake”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#ADDERCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#ADDER *nadrā, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#ADDERCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#ADDER *nadrǭ, from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ADDERCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ADDER *n̥h₁trih₂, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
See also West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter; also Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx (“watersnake”), Dutch naaien.
Alternative forms
Noun
adder (plural adders)Category:English lemmas#ADDERCategory:English nouns#ADDERCategory:English countable nouns#ADDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ADDERCategory:Pages with entries#ADDERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#ADDER
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ADDER) Any snake.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- CALIBAN: His spirits hear me, / And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch / Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, / Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark / Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but / For every trifle are they set upon me, / Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which / Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount / Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I / All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues / Do hiss me into madness—Category:English terms with quotations#ADDER
- A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
- (chiefly BritishCategory:British English#ADDER) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 245:
- Entirely filled with the image of another, her heart, indeed, had the deaf ear of the adder, which heedeth not the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.Category:English terms with quotations#ADDER
- 2021 August 25, Nick Brodrick, “Flourishing Flora and Fauna”, in RAIL, number 938, page 51:
- These include the county's [Cumbria's] only venomous snake - the adder - which relies on exposed elements to successfully breed its young.Category:English terms with quotations#ADDER
- A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- (USCategory:American English#ADDER, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#ADDER) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
- A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
- A hog-nosed snakeCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#hog-nosed%20snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
- Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- A northern copperheadCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#northern%20copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasenCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subspecies)#Agkistrodon%20contortrix%20mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- (chiefly BritishCategory:British English#ADDER) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- A sea sticklebackCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#sea%20stickleback or adder fishCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#adder%20fish (Spinachia spinachiaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Spinachia%20spinachia).
Derived terms
- adder bead
- adderbolt
- adder fish
- adder fly
- adderlike
- adder mouth
- adder stone
- adderwort
- butterfly adder
- common death adder
- deaf adder
- death adder
- Gaboon adder
- hissing adder
- horned adder
- Kimberley death adder
- night adder
- pit adder, pit-adder
- puff adder (Bitis arietansCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Bitis%20arietans)
- sea adder
- water adder
Translations
Etymology 2
From add + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#ADDER.
Noun
adder (plural adders)Category:English lemmas#ADDERCategory:English nouns#ADDERCategory:English countable nouns#ADDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ADDERCategory:Pages with entries#ADDERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#ADDER
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- Something which adds or increases.
- They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.Category:English terms with usage examples#ADDER
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
Anagrams
Category:English agent nouns#ADDERCategory:English rebracketings#ADDER Category:en:Gasterosteiform fish#ADDERCategory:en:Vipers#ADDERAfrikaans
Etymology
From DutchCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch#ADDERCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch#ADDER adder, from Middle DutchCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Middle Dutch#ADDERCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Middle Dutch#ADDER adder, adre, rebracketing of nadder, nadre, from Old DutchCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Old Dutch#ADDERCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Old Dutch#ADDER *nadra, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#ADDERCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Proto-Germanic#ADDER *nadrǭ.
Pronunciation
Noun
adder (plural adders, diminutive addertjie)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#ADDERCategory:Afrikaans nouns#ADDERCategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#ADDERCategory:Pages with entries#ADDERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#ADDER
Dutch
Etymology
Category:Dutch terms derived from Frankish#ADDERCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Frankish#ADDERCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#ADDERCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#ADDERFrom Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#ADDERCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#ADDER adder, adre, rebracketing of nadder, nadre, from Old DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch#ADDERCategory:Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch#ADDER *nadra, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#ADDERCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#ADDER *nadrā.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑ.dər/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#ADDER
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#ADDERAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: ad‧der
- Rhymes: -ɑdərCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɑdər#ADDERCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɑdər/2 syllables#ADDER
Noun
adder m or f (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#ADDERCategory:Dutch nouns#ADDERCategory:Dutch nouns with m+f gender#ADDERCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#ADDERCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#ADDERCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#ADDERCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#ADDERCategory:Dutch feminine nouns#ADDERCategory:Dutch nouns with multiple genders#ADDERCategory:Pages with entries#ADDERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#ADDER
- viper, adder (snake of the family Viperidae)
- common viperCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#common%20viper (Vipera berus)
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Anagrams
Category:Dutch rebracketings#ADDER Category:nl:Snakes#ADDERNorwegian Bokmål
Verb
adderCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#ADDERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#ADDERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#ADDERCategory:Pages with entries#ADDERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#ADDER
- imperative of addere
Old Prussian
Etymology
Borrowed from Early GermanCategory:Old Prussian terms borrowed from German#ADDERCategory:Old Prussian terms derived from German#ADDER adder, dialectal variant of oder (“or”).
Conjunction
adderCategory:Old Prussian lemmas#ADDERCategory:Old Prussian conjunctions#ADDERCategory:Old Prussian entries with incorrect language header#ADDERCategory:Pages with entries#ADDERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#ADDER
- or
- 1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 69, line 8:
- Ains Rikijs adder SupūniCategory:Old Prussian terms with quotations#ADDER
- A lord or lady
- but, however
- 1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 61, line 11:
- Kas ſtwi druwē bhe CrixtitsCategory:Old Prussian terms with quotations#ADDER
wijrſt / ſtas wijrſt Deiwuts / kas adder ni Druwe /
ſtas wijrſt perklantīts.- That, who believes and is baptized, shall be blessed; that, however, who doesn't believe, shall be damned.
- only, but
- 1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 39, line 5:
- Tāns preigerdawi adder / etnijſtin bhe wiſſanCategory:Old Prussian terms with quotations#ADDER
labban- He pledged but Grace and all the good
References
- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988), “adder”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological Dictionary of Old Prussian] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 48