tad

See also: Tad, TAd, täd, tað, -tad, and TA'd

English

Etymology

1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tæd/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æd

Noun

tad

A small amount; a little bit.
Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:modicum.

Translations

a little bit

Catalan: xic (ca) m, pèl (ca) m
Dutch: beetje (nl) n, scheutje (nl) f, (Flemish) klets (nl) m
Finnish: hiukan (fi), hieman (fi)
Italian: po’ m
Japanese: 多少 (ja) (tashou)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tanke (no) m

Russian: немно́го (ru) (nemnógo)
Slovak: trošku, trochu, kúsok
Spanish: tanto (es) m
Swedish: gnutta (sv) c
Telugu: కాస్త (te) (kāsta), కాస్తంత (kāstanta), కొద్దిగా (te) (koddigā)

Anagrams

ADT, D. A. T., D.A.T., DAT, DTA, TDA, dat, dat.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːt/

Noun

tad m (plural tadoù)

father

ma zad ― my father

da dad ― your father

Inflection

Mutation of tad

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	tad	dad	zad	unchanged	unchanged
plural	tadoù	dadoù	zadoù	unchanged	unchanged

Derived terms

Terms derived from tad

tadeg
tadig

tad-kuñv

Cebuano

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: tad

Noun

tad

the cigar wrasse (Cheilio inermis)

Latvian

Adverb

tad

then
at that time
after that
afterwards

Middle English

Noun

tad

toad

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tâd/

Adverb

tȁd (Cyrillic spelling та̏д)

then, at that time

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taːd/

Noun

tad m (plural tadau)

father

Coordinate terms

mab (“son”)
mam (“mother”)
merch (“daughter”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tad	dad	nhad	thad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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