tad

See also Tad

English

Etymology

1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

tad (uncountable)

1. A small amount; a little bit.

   Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?

Synonyms

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Translations

a little bit

• Dutch: beetje (nl) n, scheutje (nl) f, (Flemish) klets (nl) m
• Finnish: hiukan (fi), hieman (fi)
• Italian: po’ (it) m

• Russian: немного (ru) (nemnógo)
• Spanish: tanto (es) m
• Telugu: కాస్త (kaasta), కాస్తంత (kaastaMta), కొద్దిగా (koddigaa)

Anagrams

• ADT
• dat, Dat., DAT
• DTA
• TDA

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tato- (compare Welsh tad, Cornish tas).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɑːt/

Noun

tad m (plural tadoù)

1. father

   ma zad — my father

   da dad — your father

Inflection

  Mutation of tad  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	tad	dad	zad	unchanged	unchanged
plural	tadoù	dadoù	zadoù	unchanged	unchanged

Derived terms

• tad-kaer
• tad-kozh
• tad-kuñv
• tadeg
• tadig

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Latvian

Pronoun

tad

1. then

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Lojban

Rafsi

tad

1. rafsi of tadni.

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Middle English

Noun

tad

1. toad

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tâd/

Adverb

tȁd (Cyrillic spelling та̏д)

1. then, at that time

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tato- (compare Breton tad, Cornish tas).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [tɑːd]

Noun

tad m (plural tadau) 

1. father

Coordinate terms

• mab (“son”)
• mam (“mother”)
• merch (“daughter”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tad	dad	nhad	thad