adherent

See also: adhérent and adhèrent

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪəɹənt/, /əd-/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

adherent sand
  1. 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.
  2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  3. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.

Synonyms

Translations
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Translations to be checked

Noun

adherent (plural adherents)

  1. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin adhaerēns.

Pronunciation
  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ə.dəˈɾent/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ə.dəˈɾen/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.deˈɾent/

Adjective

adherent (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

  1. adherent

Noun

adherent m or f (plural adherents)

  1. adherent

Further reading

Latin

Verb

adhērent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /adxěrent/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)

  1. adherent

Declension
Declension of adherent
singular plural
nominative adhèrent adherenti
genitive adherenta adhèrenātā
dative adherentu adherentima
accusative adherenta adherente
vocative adherente adherenti
locative adherentu adherentima
instrumental adherentom adherentima

Synonyms
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.