adapter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *aptos
Latin aptus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
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Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin aptō
Latin adaptōder.
Middle English *adapten
English adapt
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English adapter
From adapt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: adapters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adaptor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.
pos: noun
examples: He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.
gloss: One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
pos: noun
examples: The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.
gloss: A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
pos: noun
examples: He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.
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.
gloss: A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
pos: noun
examples: The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.
gloss: A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
pos: noun
examples: We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.
gloss: A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
pos: noun
examples: I lost my cellphone's adapter so I couldn't recharge it.
gloss: A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.
pos: noun
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُشْتَرَك كَهْرَبَائِيّ
roman: muštarak kahrabāʔiyy
lang: Asturian
word: lladrón
lang: Belarusian
word: перахадні́к
roman: pjeraxadník
lang: Bulgarian
word: удължи́тел
roman: udǎlžítel
lang: Bulgarian
word: разклони́тел
roman: razklonítel
lang: Czech
word: rozbočka
lang: Czech
word: rozdvojka
lang: Dutch
word: verdeelstekker
lang: Dutch
word: dominostekker
lang: Dutch
word: driewegstekker
lang: Esperanto
word: adaptilo
lang: Finnish
word: haaroitin
lang: Finnish
word: haaroituspistorasia
lang: French
word: adaptateur
lang: German
word: Steckdosenleiste
lang: German
word: Steckerleiste
lang: Polish
word: rozgałęźnik
lang: Polish
word: przedłużacz
lang: Polish
word: złodziejka
lang: Portuguese
word: adaptador
lang: Romanian
word: adaptor
lang: Russian
word: переходни́к
roman: perexodník
lang: Slovak
word: rozbočka
lang: Slovak
word: rozdvojka
lang: Spanish
word: adaptador
lang: Spanish
word: ladrón
lang: Spanish
word: regleta
lang: Ukrainian
word: перехідни́к
roman: perexidnýk
lang: Bulgarian
word: пре́ходник
roman: préhodnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: приста́вка
roman: pristávka
lang: Catalan
word: adaptador
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 適配器 /适配器
roman: shìpèiqì
lang: Dutch
word: reisstekker
lang: Dutch
word: verloopstekker
lang: Dutch
word: wereldstekker
lang: Esperanto
word: adaptilo
lang: Estonian
word: adapter
lang: Finnish
word: sovitin
lang: Finnish
word: adapteri
lang: French
word: adaptateur
lang: German
word: Adapter
lang: Greek
word: προσαρμοστής
roman: prosarmostís
lang: Japanese
word: アダプター
roman: adaputā
lang: Khmer
word: អាដាប់ធ័រ
roman: ʼaadapthɔə
lang: Lao
word: ປັກສຽບໄຟ
roman: pak sīap fai
lang: Polish
word: przejściówka
lang: Polish
word: adapter
lang: Portuguese
word: adaptador
lang: Portuguese
word: T
lang: Portuguese
word: benjamim
lang: Romanian
word: adaptor
lang: Russian
word: ада́птер
roman: adáptɛr
lang: Russian
word: переходни́к
roman: perexodník
lang: Spanish
word: adaptador
lang: Turkish
word: adaptör
lang: Turkish
word: priz adaptörü
lang: Ukrainian
word: перехідни́к
roman: perexidnýk