Adadus

English

Etymology

From Latin Adadus.

Proper noun

Adadus (plural Adaduses)

1. 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), form Akkadian 𒀭𒅎.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.da.dus/, [ˈäd̪äd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.da.dus/, [ˈäːd̪äd̪us]

Noun

Adadus m sg (genitive Adadī); second declension

1. Adad

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