Adadus
English
Etymology
Proper noun
Adadus (plural Adaduses)
- Alternative form of Adad.
- 1917, Camden McCormack Cobern, The New Archaeological Discoveries and their Bearing upon the New Testament and upon the Life and Times of the Primitive Church[1], Funk, page 505:
- Perhaps the most important single discoveries since 1900 have been those connected with the ancient temples of Rome, and of these none were more important than those in the temple of Jupiter Dolichenus, the Syrian Adadus on the Janiculum, the triangular altar of which was found still standing in its central chapel.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἄδαδος (Ádados), from Akkadian 𒀭𒅎.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.da.dʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.d̪a.d̪us]
Noun
Adadus m sg (genitive Adadī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Adadus |
| genitive | Adadī |
| dative | Adadō |
| accusative | Adadum |
| ablative | Adadō |
| vocative | Adade |
Related terms
- adadunephros
- adaduophthalmos
- adadudactylos
Descendants
- English: Adadus
References
- “Adad”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette