adder

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English addere, misdivision of naddere, from Old English nǣdre, nǣddre (“snake, serpent, viper, adder”), from Proto-Germanic *nēdrǭ, *nadrǭ (“snake, viper”) (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 *sneh₁- (“to spin, twist”) (compare Dutch naaien). More at needle.

Noun

adder (plural adders)

1. (obsolete) A snake.
2. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
3. (chiefly UK) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of the genus Oecobius.
4. (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
5. The sea-stickleback or adder-fish.

Derived terms

• adder-fish
• puff adder

Translations

snake

• Armenian: օձ (hy) (òj)
• Bulgarian: змия (bg) (zmija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毒蛇 (cmn) (dúshé), 蝰蛇 (cmn) (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
• Scottish Gaelic: nathair (gd) f
• Spanish: serpiente (es) f, culebra (es) f

viper

• Armenian: իժ (hy) (iž)
• Bulgarian: пепелянка (bg) (pepeljanka)
• Catalan: escurçó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝰蛇 (cmn) (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, Kriizadder (nds) f
• Macedonian: гуја (mk) (gúja) f
• Polish: żmija (pl) f
• Portuguese: víbora (pt) f
• 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; a machine for adding numbers.
2. Something which adds or increases.

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

Derived terms

• full adder
• half adder

Translations

what performs arithmetic addition

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

what increases

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

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 *nadrǭ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

adder m, 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