-dad
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-dad
- (adjective-forming suffix) similar to, sort of, -like, resembling, in the nature of. Appended to a word to form an adjective.
Usage notes
- (adjective-forming suffix) Originally, it was a diminutive suffix (cf. kisded). Today it is used to express similarity just like the suffixes -féle and -szerű. Harmonic variants:
- -dad is added to back vowel words
- -ded is added to front vowel words
Derived terms
See also
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Spanish -dat, from Latin -tātem, accusative of -tās, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts.
Suffix
-dad f (noun-forming suffix, plural -dades)
- Used in forming a noun to represent the property corresponding to an adjective; -ity
Usage notes
The bare form -dad only comes after the letters l or n. Adjectives ending in -io and two syllable adjectives take the form -edad. Adjectives ending in -ble take the form -bilidad. Adjectives with three or more syllables take the -idad form.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “-dad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒd
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒd/1 syllable
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian suffixes
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish suffixes
- Spanish noun-forming suffixes
- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish feminine suffixes