# adapter
## English
### Alternative forms

* adaptor

### Etymology

From adapt +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ə-dăpʹtər
** (UK) IPA: /əˈdæptə(ɹ)/
** (US) IPA: /əˈdæptəɹ/
* Hyphenation: adap‧ter
* Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

adapter (plural adapters)
* One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.
    He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.
* One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
    The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.
* A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
    He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.
** 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times‎:Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
** Specifically, a device that permits two or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
    The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.
** Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
    We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.
** Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.
    I lost my cellphone's adapter so I couldn't recharge it.
* (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.

#### Hyponyms

* AC adapter
* analog telephone adapter
* cell phone adapter
* Claisen adapter
* IPv4 adapter
* IPv6 adapter
* LAN adapter
* network adapter
* phone adapter
* phone to PC adapter
* power adapter

#### Derived terms

* adaptability
* adaptable
* adaptableness
* adaptably
* adaptation
* adaptational
* adaptative
* adaptatively
* adaptativeness
* adaptedness
* adaptee
* adapter pattern
* adaption
* adaptional
* adaptitude
* adaptive
* adaptively
* adaptiveness
* adaptly
* adaptness
* adaptorial
* class adapter pattern
* double adapter
* expansion adapter
* graphics adapter
* microadapter
* object adapter pattern
* seroadapter
* travel adapter
* USB adapter
* wireless adapter

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: アダプター (adaputā)

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### References

* Category:adapters on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* re-adapt, readapt

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English adapter.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): aa$^6$ dep$^1$ taa$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: aa$^6$ dep$^1$ taa$^2$
*** Cantonese Pinyin: aa$^6$ dep$^7$ taa$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: a$^6$ déb$^1$ ta$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /aː²² tɛːp̚⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

### Noun

adapter
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) adapter (device between connectors with different formats)

#### Synonyms

* 轉插器／转插器, 轉插／转插

## Estonian
### Etymology

From English adapter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑˈd̥ɑpter/, [ɑˈd̥ɑpˑter]
* Rhymes: -ɑpter
* Hyphenation: adap‧ter

### Noun

adapter (genitive adapteri, partitive adapterit)
* (electronics) adapter (a device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible)

#### Compounds

* reisiadapter
* toiteadapter
* võrguadapter

#### Related terms

* adaptiivne
* adaptogeenne
* adaptatsioon
* adapteerija
* adapteerimine
* adaptiivsus
* adaptogeen
* adaptsioon
* adapteerima
* adapteeruma

### References

* adapter in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
* “adapter”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

## French
### Etymology

From Latin adaptare, from ad + aptare (“to fit”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.dap.te/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

adapter
* (transitive) to adapt
* (reflexive, s'adapter) to adapt oneself or itself

#### Derived terms

* adaptable
* adapteur
* sport adapté

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: adapta

### Further reading

* “adapter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* dérapât

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English adapter.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /aˈdaptər/ [aˈdap.t̪ər]
* Syllabification: a‧dap‧ter

### Noun

adaptêr (plural adapter-adapter)
* Alternative form of adaptor

## Latin
### Verb

adapter
* first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adaptō

## Middle French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adaptō.

### Verb

adapter
* to adapt

#### Conjugation

* Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (adapter, supplement)

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English adapter. First attested in 1903.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈdap.tɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aptɛr
* Syllabification: a‧dap‧ter

### Noun

adapter m inan (diminutive adapterek)
* (electronics) adapter (a device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible)
    Synonyms: przejściówka, rozgałęziacz
    adapter sieciowy/sieci ― a network adapter
    adapter USB ― a USB adapter
* (music) gramophone, phonograph, record player
    Synonym: gramofon
    stary adapter ― an old gramophone
    głośnik adapteru ― a gramophone speaker
    igła adapteru ― a gramophone needle
    ramię adapteru ― a gramophone arm
    nastawić adapter ― to pop a gramophone on
    uruchomić adapter ― to start a gramophone
    włączyć adapter ― to turn on a gramophone
    wyłączyć adapter ― to turn off gramophone
    podłączyć adapter ― to hook up a gramophone
    ściszyć adapter ― to turn down a gramophone
    podgłośnić adapter ― to turn up a gramophone

#### Derived terms

* adapterowy

#### Related terms

* adaptabilny
* adaptacyjny
* adaptatorski
* adaptatywny
* adaptogenny
* adaptowalny
* adaptacyjnie
* adaptatywnie
* adapciak
* adaptabilność
* adaptacja
* adaptacjonizm
* adaptacyjność
* adaptator
* adaptatorka
* adaptatywność
* adaptogen
* adaptometr
* adaptowalność
* adaptować impf, zaadaptować pf

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adapter”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “adapter”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “adapter”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ Józef Świtkowski (1903) Fotografia praktyczna w zarysie do użytku amatorów‎, page 39

### Further reading

* adapter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* adapter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Swedish
### Noun

adapter c
* an adapter (device)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | adapter | adapters |
| singular | definite | adaptern | adapterns |
| plural | indefinite | adaptrar | adaptrars |
| plural | definite | adaptrarna | adaptrarnas |

### References

* adapter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* adapter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)