-iad

See also: iad and IAD

English

Etymology 1

Based on Iliad.

Suffix

-iad

  1. Forming the name of an epic about the indicated topic.
    The Athletiad, The Congressiad, The Female Dunciad, The Mooriad, The Popiad, The Rapiad, The Scribleriad

Etymology 2

Based on Olympiad,[1] and perhaps also influenced by the common ending iad on units of time formed by suffixing -ad to words ending in -ium, e.g. decenniad.

Suffix

-iad

  1. (rare) A period of time from one occurrence of an (indicated, regularly recurrent) event to the next.
    • 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, page 28:
      Acrid the temper of the parties, vital the pending questions. Congress convenes; the President sends his Message; Reconstruction is still in abeyance; the nominations and the contest for the twenty-first Presidentiad draw close, [...]

See also

References
  1. John Algeo, Adele S. Algeo, Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991 (1993, →ISBN), page 6

Anagrams

Welsh

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *-ad, from earlier *-atus, a late (British) variant of *-ātus, used to form verbal nouns from Celtic ā-stem verbs. The -i- is secondary.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jad/

Suffix

-iad

  1. Forms abstract nouns from verbs.

Derived terms
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