A.

See also: a. and Appendix:Variations of "a"

Translingual

Noun

A. (plural Aa.)

1. Alternative letter-case form of a.

English

Noun

A.

1. absolute temperature
2. absorbance; absorbancy
3. academy; academician

   acad

4. accommodation
5. accumulator
6. accusative case
7. acid
8. acre; acres

   A; a.

9. address
10. adjutant
11. administration
12. admiral
13. adult
14. age; aged
15. air
16. air branch
17. aircraft; airplane
18. airman
19. alfa
20. alto
21. amateur

    a.

22. ambassador
23. America; Americanization

    Amer.

24. (biblical) Amos, the book of
25. amphibian
26. amplitude
27. ana; anna
28. Angstrom

    Å

29. annus (a year)
30. anode
31. answer

    ans.; ans; A

32. application
33. apprentice
34. April
35. aqua
36. arctic
37. army
38. article
39. artificer
40. Artillery
41. (military) assault, as on a badge
42. associate; association
43. Atlantic
44. atomic weight
45. attack
46. August
47. author
48. automobile

Adjective

A.

1. absent
2. Absolute
3. accepted
4. adjusted
5. alto
6. American
7. amphibious
8. anterior
9. approved
10. arctic
11. arterial
12. Asian
13. asked
14. astragal
15. asymmetric
16. atomic
17. Australian
18. auxiliary
19. avancé (fast)

Verb

A.

1. admit
2. Americanize

Preposition

A.

1. after
2. ante (before)
3. at

Adverb

A.

1. annō (in the year)

Latin

Abbreviations

A.

1. (in dates) ante (“before”)

   A. D. — ante diem

2. (in dates) anno, annus (“year”)

   A. D. — anno Domini

   A. U. C. — anno urbis conditae

   A. P. R. C. — anno post Romam conditam

3. Aulus (a Roman given name)
   • 4–5 CE, Inscriptiones Orelli 1530: A. A. — Auli duo
4. aquae (“waters”)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Inscriptiones Orelli 1643 sequens; 2620; 3011: A.A. — Aquae Aponi (“Abano Terme”)
5. auro, argento, or aeri (the three directors of the mint)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Inscriptiones Orelli 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 alia: III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. — auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo
6. agris (“fields”)

   A. D. A. — agris dandis adsignandis

   A. I. A. — agris judicandis adsignandis

7. (upon the voting tablets in judicial trials) absolvo (“I free”, “I acquit”)
8. (in the Roman Comitia) antiquo — “I leave in its former state”, “I reject” [e.g. the point in question]
9. amicō (“friend”)

   A. O. — amico optimo — “best friend”

10. a (“of, from”)

    A. P. — a populo

11. aediliciae

    A. P. — aediliciae potestatis

12. aerario

    A. P. R. — aerario populi Romani

13. (in Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes, “Tusculan Disputations”) adulescens or auditor, one of the disputants, as opposed to M. for magister or Marcus

Proper noun

A. m (indeclinable)

1. Praenominal abbreviation of Aulus.

Malay

Alternative forms

• Ab.

Proper noun

A.

1. Abdul (a male given name)

References

• “A.” in Kamus Dewan Perdana, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2021, →ISBN, page 1.