Cadi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cadi"

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃáː.dì/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [t͡ʃáː.dɪ̀]

Proper noun

Cādì f

  1. Chad (a country in Central Africa)
  2. Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa)

References

  • Awde, Nicholas (1996) Hausa-English/English-Hausa Dictionary, New York, USA: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 21
  • Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κάδοι (Kádoi).

Proper noun

Cadī m pl (genitive Cadōrum); second declension

  1. an ancient city of Mysia or Phrygia, situated near the course of the Hermus in modern Turkey

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

plural
nominative Cadī
genitive Cadōrum
dative Cadīs
accusative Cadōs
ablative Cadīs
vocative Cadī
locative Cadīs

References

  • “Cadi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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