ador

See also: Ador, -ador, and adõr

Ayu

Noun

ador

1. plural of idor

References

• Blench, Roger, The Ayu language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2011), page 6

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ed- (“grain, barley”). The term may derive from Proto-Italic *adōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd-ōs (“dried stuff, grain”, collective). Alternatively, it may derive from Proto-Italic *ados, from *h₂éd-os, perhaps whence also Old Irish ad, Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺 (atisk), and Old Armenian հատ (hat). Hittite [script needed] (ḫattar) has also been connected, though this is highly uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.dɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.dor]

Noun

ador n (genitive adō̆ris); third declension

1. a kind of hulled wheat of the genus Triticum: emmer, farro, or spelt

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	ador	adō̆ra
genitive	adō̆ris	adō̆rum
dative	adō̆rī	adō̆ribus
accusative	ador	adō̆ra
ablative	adō̆re	adō̆ribus
vocative	ador	adō̆ra

Derived terms

• adōrea
• adōreum
• adōreus

References

• “ădor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ador”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ădŏr”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 52/1.
• “ador” on page 52/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ador, -oris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 25
• Kroonen, Guus; Jakob, Anthony; Palmér, Axel; van Sluis, Paulus; Wigman, Andrew (12 October 2022), “Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages”, in Wichmann, Søren, editor, PLoS ONE‎^[1], volume 17, number 10, →DOI, page 11 of 45

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈdor]

Verb

ador

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of adora

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الدَّوْر (ad-dawr, “turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdoɾ/ [aˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: a‧dor

Noun

ador m (plural adores)

1. (agriculture) a time period allotted for watering crops

Further reading

• “ador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025