English Explanatory Dictionary

adder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any snake.
  2. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
  3. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
  4. A common European adder (Vipera berus).
  5. A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
  6. Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
  7. A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
  8. A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
  9. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
  10. Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
  11. A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
  12. A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
noun
  1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  2. An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
  3. Something which adds or increases.
noun
  1. A person who has attention deficit disorder.

Pronunciation

/ˈædɚ/ en-au-adder.ogg

Word forms

adder adders edder

Etymology

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.

Derived words

adder bead adderbolt adder fish adder fly adderlike adder mouth adder stone adderwort butterfly adder common death adder deaf adder death adder Gaboon adder hissing adder horned adder Kimberley death adder night adder pit adder pit-adder puff adder sea adder water adder adder-subtractor carry-lookahead adder carry-save adder carry-skip adder full adder half adder

Translations

Afrikaans: adder Akan: nanka Armenian: իժ Asturian: víbora Azerbaijani: gürzə Bulgarian: пепелянка Catalan: escurçó Chinese Mandarin: 蝰蛇 Czech: zmije Danish: hugorm Dutch: adder Estonian: rästik Finnish: kyy French: vipère Galician: naia Galician: sacaveira Galician: áspide Galician: bichorro Georgian: გველგესლა German: Otter German: Viper German: Kreuzotter Greek: οχιά Greek: έχιδνα Ancient Greek: ἔχιδνα Ido: vipero Ingrian: jaadumato Ingrian: kirjava mato Ingrian: gadjukka Irish: nathair nimhe Italian: vipera Italian: marasso Japanese: クサリヘビ Japanese: 鎖蛇 Latin: aspis Latvian: odze Low German: Adder Low German: Krüüzadder Low German: Kriizadder Macedonian: гуја Eastern Mari: шемгишке Western Mari: шим кӹшкӹ Polish: żmija Portuguese: víbora Romanian: viperă Russian: гадю́ка Sanskrit: पृदाकु Serbo-Croatian: guja Sicilian: lìpira Sicilian: scursuni Lower Sorbian: zmija Spanish: víbora Swedish: huggorm
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