adder

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈæd.ɚ/, SAMPA: /{d@`/
• Rhymes: -ædə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English addere, misdivision of naddere, from Old English nædre, from Proto-Germanic *nadrō (compare West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter), from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *nh₁trih₂ (compare Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx ‘watersnake’), from *snéh₁- ‘to spin, twist’ (compare Dutch naaien). More at needle.

Noun

adder (plural adders)

1. (obsolete) A snake.
2. (UK) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of the genus Clotho.
3. (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.

Translations

snake

Armenian: օձ (hy) (òj) Bulgarian: змия (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 毒蛇 (zh) (dúshé), 蝰蛇 (zh) (kuíshé) Dutch: slang (nl) f. Finnish: käärme (fi) German: Natter (de) f.

Irish: nathair (ga) f. Japanese: 毒蛇 (ja) (どくへび, doku-hebi) Korean: 독사 (ko) (doksa) (毒蛇 (ko)) Low German: Adder (nds) f. Macedonian: шарка (mk) (šárka) f. Russian: змея (ru) (zmejá) f., гадюка (ru) (gadjúka) f. Spanish: serpiente (es) f., culebra (es) f.

viper

Armenian: իժ (hy) (iž) Bulgarian: пепелянка (bg) Catalan: escurçó (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 蝰蛇 (zh) (kuíshé) Czech: zmije (cs) f. Dutch: adder (nl) m. Estonian: rästik (et) Finnish: kyy (fi) French: vipère (fr) f. Galician: please add this translation if you can German: Otter (de) f., Viper (de) f., Kreuzotter (de) f. Greek: οχιά (el) (ochiá) f., έχιδνα (el) (échidna) f.

Ido: vipero (io) Irish: nathair nimhe (ga) f. Japanese: クサリヘビ (ja) (kusari-hebi), 鎖蛇 (ja) (くさりへび, kusari-hebi) Latin: aspis (la) f. Latvian: odze f. Low German: Adder (nds) f., Krüüzadder (nds) f. Low Saxon: Adder f. Macedonian: гуја (mk) (gúja) f. Polish: żmija (pl) f. Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: гадюка (ru) (gadjúka) f. Spanish: víbora (es) f. Swedish: huggorm (sv)

Etymology 2

to add + -er.

Noun

adder (plural adders)

1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition.
2. Something which adds or increases.

   They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.

Translations

what performs arithmetic addition

Portuguese: somador (pt) m., somadora (pt) f.

what increases

Portuguese: somador (pt) m., somadora (pt) f.

Derived terms

• full adder
• half adder

Anagrams

• dared
• dread
• readd

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nādra, from Proto-Germanic *nadrōn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

adder m. and f. (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje)

1. viper, adder

Derived terms

• addergebroed
• een addertje onder het gras

Anagrams

• dader

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Old Prussian

Conjunction

adder

1. or

   wāiklis adder mērgā - boy or girl

2. but