duad
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdjuːæd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd(j)uæd/
- Hyphenation: du‧ad
Noun
[edit]duad (plural duads)
- A pair or couple.
- Synonyms: dyad, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo
- 1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Minor Tribes and the Mpongwe”, in Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. […], part I (The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, […], →OCLC, page 96:
- [T]hey have invented idols, a manifest advance toward that polytheism and pantheism which lead through a triad and duad of deities to monotheism, the finial of the spiritual edifice.
- (astrology) Dwadasama.
- (mathematics) An unordered pair.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
Derived terms
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[edit]North Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Föhr-Amrum) IPA(key): [duɐ̯d]
Noun
[edit]duad
Inflection
[edit]| masculine | feminine / neuter |
plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |||
| not comparable | ||||
| predicative / adverbial | duad | |||
| attributive | duaden | duad | duad | |
| independent | duaden | |||
| partitive | duads | — | ||
Related terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Participle
[edit]duad
- past participle of dua
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