adder
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English nǣdre (“snake”), from Proto-West Germanic *nadrā, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ, from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n̥h₁trih₂, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”)
See also West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter; also Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx (“watersnake”), Dutch naaien.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]adder (plural adders)
- (obsolete) Any snake.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- CALIBAN: His spirits hear me, / And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch / Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, / Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark / Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but / For every trifle are they set upon me, / Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which / Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount / Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I / All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues / Do hiss me into madness—
- A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper.
- (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 245:
- Entirely filled with the image of another, her heart, indeed, had the deaf ear of the adder, which heedeth not the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
- 2021 August 25, Nick Brodrick, “Flourishing Flora and Fauna”, in RAIL, number 938, page 51:
- These include the county's [Cumbria's] only venomous snake - the adder - which relies on exposed elements to successfully breed its young.
- The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
- Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake).
- Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snakes), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
- Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]adder (plural adders)
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- Something which adds or increases.
- They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.
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[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch adder, from Middle Dutch adder, adre, misdivison of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adder (plural adders, diminutive addertjie)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch adder, adre, rebracketing of nadder, nadre, from Old Dutch *nadra, from Proto-West Germanic *nadrā.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adder m or f (plural adders or adderen, diminutive addertje n)
- viper, adder; snake of the family Viperidae
- common viper, Vipera berus
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[edit]Verb
[edit]adder
- imperative of addere
Old Prussian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Early German adder, dialectal variant of oder (“or”).
Conjunction
[edit]adder
- or
- 1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 69, line 8:
- Ains Rikijs adder Supūni
- A lord or lady
- but, however
- 1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 61, line 11:
- Kas ſtwi druwē bhe Crixtits
wijrſt / ſtas wijrſt Deiwuts / kas adder ni Druwe /
ſtas wijrſt perklantīts.- That, who believes and is baptized, shall be blessed; that, however, who doesn't believe, shall be damned.
- only, but
- 1561, Martin Luther, translated by Abel Will & Paul Megott, Stas Likuts Catechismus [The Small Catechism], →OCLC, page 39, line 5:
- Tāns preigerdawi adder / etnijſtin bhe wiſſan
labban- He pledged but Grace and all the good
References
[edit]- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “adder”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian][1] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 48
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