adherent

See also: adhérent and adhèrent

English

Alternative forms

• adhærent (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪəɹənt/, /əd-/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

adherent sand

1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
   • 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:

     Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
     And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.

2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
3. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.

Synonyms

• adhering

Related terms

• adhere
• adherence
• adhesive
• coherent
• inherent

Translations

adhesive

• Bulgarian: лепкав (bg) (lepkav)
• Catalan: adherent, adhesiu
• Danish: klæbende
• Finnish: kiinnittyvä
• German: klebend (de), anhaftend (de)
• Hungarian: ragadós (hu)
• Ido: adheranta (io), adherema (io), adheriva (io)
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• Interlingue:
• Portuguese: aderente (pt), adesivo (pt)
• Romanian: aderent (ro) m
• Russian: кле́йкий (ru) (kléjkij), ли́пкий (ru) (lípkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainn
• Spanish: adhesivo (es)

that has the quality of clinging

• Bulgarian: прилепнал (bg) (prilepnal)
• Catalan: adherent m or f
• Finnish: adherentti, tarttuva (fi)
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• German: anhängend (de)
• Interlingue:
• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainn
• Spanish: adherente (es)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} adhérent (fr)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} adherente
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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} aderente (it)

Noun

adherent (plural adherents)

1. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

Translations

a person who has membership in some group

• Bulgarian: привърженик (bg) (privǎrženik)
• Catalan: adherent m or f
• Czech: příznivec m (to a principle or rule), stoupenec (cs) m, člen (cs), přívrženec (cs) m
• Danish: anhænger c
• Esperanto: adepto (eo)
• Finnish: jäsen (fi)
• French: adhérent (fr)
• Georgian: მომხრე (momxre)
• German: Mitglied (de) n, Anhänger (de) m
• Greek: οπαδός (el) m (opadós)
• Hungarian: tag (hu), követő (hu)
• Ido: adheranto (io)
• Interlingua: adherente
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• Interlingue:
• Italian: aderente (it)
• Latin: sectātor m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilhenger (no)

• Portuguese: aderente (pt) m or f
• Romanian: aderent (ro) m
• Russian: приве́рженец (ru) m (privérženec), приве́рженка (ru) f (privérženka), сторо́нник (ru) m (storónnik), сторо́нница (ru) f (storónnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: адхѐрент m, сле̏дбенӣк m/сље̏дбенӣк m, прѝсталица m or f, при̏сташа m

  Roman: adhèrent (sh) m, slȅdbenīk (sh) m/sljȅdbenīk (sh) m, prìstalica (sh) m or f, prȉstaša (sh) m

• Spanish: adherente (es) m
• Swedish: anhängare (sv) c

Anagrams

• anthered, hand tree, hartened, neatherd, threaden

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin adhaerēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ðəˈɾen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ðəˈɾent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðeˈɾent]

Adjective

adherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

1. adherent

Noun

adherent m or f (plural adherents)

1. adherent

Related terms

• adherència
• adherir

Further reading

• “adherent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) adhērent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adxěrent/
• Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)

1. adherent

Declension

Declension of adherent

	singular	plural
nominative	adhèrent	adherenti
genitive	adherenta	adhèrenātā
dative	adherentu	adherentima
accusative	adherenta	adherente
vocative	adherente	adherenti
locative	adherentu	adherentima
instrumental	adherentom	adherentima

Synonyms

• (follower): prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk