# adherent
## English
### Alternative forms

* adhærent (archaic)

### Etymology

From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/, /əd-/
* (US) IPA: /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/, /əd-/
** Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)
* Adhesive, sticking to something.
** 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.
* Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
* (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
* (medicine, of a person) Showing adherence to a treatment.
** 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217:Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.

#### Synonyms

* adhering

#### Derived terms

* adherently
* cytoadherent
* deadherent
* enteroadherent
* hyperadherent
* inadherent
* mucoadherent
* nonadherent
* preadherent
* semiadherent
* unadherent

#### Related terms

* adhere
* adherence
* adhesive
* coherent
* inherent

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### Noun

adherent (plural adherents)
* A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

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### References

* “adherent, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* hand tree, hartened, neatherd, Atherden, Renthead, threaden, anthered

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adhaerentem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.ðəˈɾen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.ðəˈɾent]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.ðeˈɾent]

### Adjective

adherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)
* adherent

### Noun

adherent m or f by sense (plural adherents)
* adherent

#### Related terms

* adherència
* adherir

### Further reading

* “adherent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French adhérent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaerēre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

### Adjective

adherent (comparative adherenter, superlative adherentst)
* adherent

#### Related terms

* adherentie
* adhesie
* adhesief

## Latin
### Verb

adhērent
* third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adhaerēns. First attested in 1588.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /atˈxɛ.rɛnt/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /atˈxɛ.rɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛrɛnt
* Syllabification: ad‧he‧rent

### Noun

adherent m pers (female equivalent adherentka)
* (dated or literary) adherent, henchman, supporter
    Synonyms: poplecznik, rzecznik, stronnik, zwolennik
    Antonyms: adwersarz, oponent, przeciwnik

#### Related terms

* adherencja

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adherent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “adherent”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

### Further reading

* adherent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* adherent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Danuta Lankiewicz (05.01.2014) “ADHERENT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adherent”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adherent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 7

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /adxěrent/
* Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

### Noun

adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)
* adherent

#### Synonyms

* (follower): prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk