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ador

1. plural of idor

• Blench, Roger, The Ayu language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2011), page 6

From Proto-Italic *ados, *adōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd-ōs (“dried stuff, grain”, collective), from *h₂ed-. Compare Old English āte (“oat”), Old Armenian հատ (hat, “grain, piece”) and Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺 (atisk, “cornfield”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.dɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d̪or]

ador n (genitive adō̆ris); third declension

1. a kind of hulled wheat of the genus Triticum: emmer, farro, or spelt

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “ădor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ador”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ădŏr”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 52/1.
• “ador” on page 52/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• IPA^(key): [aˈdor]

ador

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of adora

Borrowed from Arabic الدَّوْر (ad-dawr, “turn”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈdoɾ/ [aˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: a‧dor

ador m (plural adores)

1. (agriculture) a time period allotted for watering crops

• “ador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024