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  1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                    

    [Adder]

    ** English

    [2016]

    *** Pronunciation

    - [en] - [en] - [en]

    *** Etymology 1

    [en] From [en], [enm], [rebracketing] of “_a naddere_” as “_an addere_”, from [en], from [en], from [en], from pre-Germanic [ine-pro], variant of [en], from [ine-pro].

    See also [fy], [nl], [de], [de]; also [cy], [la], [nl].

    **** Alternative forms

    - [en]

    **** Noun

    [en-noun]

    1. [en] Any snake . 2. * [II] 3. [A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper .] 1. [en] A small venomous serpent of the genus [Vipera] 2. * [page=245] 3. * [en] 1. A common European adder ( [Vipera berus] ). 4. A puff adder s, of Africa (genus [Bitis] ). 5. [en] Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders 1. A milk snake ( [Lampropeltis triangulum] ). 2. A [hog-nosed snake] , of genus [Heterodon] of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America 6. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders 1. [death adder] s ( [Acanthophis] spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia 2. A [northern copperhead] ( [Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen] ), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States 4. A [sea stickleback] or [adder fish] ( [Spinachia spinachia] ).

    ***** Derived terms

    {{col2|en|hissing adder |adder bead|adderbolt |adder fish|adder fly |adderlike |adder stone |adderwort |butterfly adder |common death adder |deaf adder|death adder |Gaboon adder |Kimberley death adder |horned adder |night adder |pit adder,pit-adder|[en] ([Bitis arietans]) |sea adder |water adder }}

    ***** Translations

    [snake]

    - Afrikaans: [af] - Armenian: [hy] - Bulgarian: [bg] - Chinese: - Dutch: [nl] - Finnish: [fi] - Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] - Georgian: [ka] - German: [de] - Indonesian: [id] - Irish: [ga] - Japanese: [ja] - Korean: [ko] - Low German: [nds] - Macedonian: [mk] - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] - Sanskrit: [sa] - Scottish Gaelic: [gd] - Serbo-Croatian: [sh] - Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] - Spanish: [es] , [es] - Thai: [th] , [th] - Ukrainian: [uk] - Zazaki: [zza] [trans-bottom]

    [viper]

    - Afrikaans: [af] - Akan: [ak] - Armenian: [hy] - Azerbaijani: [az] - Bulgarian: [bg] - Catalan: [ca] - Chinese: - Czech: [cs] - Danish: [da] - Dutch: [nl] - Estonian: [et] - Finnish: [fi] - French: [fr] - Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] - Georgian: [ka] - German: [de] , [de] , [de] - Greek: [el] , [el] - Ido: [io] - Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh] - Irish: [ga] - Japanese: [ja] , [ja] - Latin: [la] - Latvian: [lv] - Low German: [nds] ; [nds] , [nds] - Macedonian: [mk] - Mari: - Polish: [pl] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] - Russian: [ru] - Sanskrit: [sa] - Serbo-Croatian: [sh] - Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] - Sorbian: - Spanish: [es] - Swedish: [sv] - Ukrainian: [uk] [trans-bottom]

    *** Etymology 2

    From [en].

    **** Noun

    [en-noun]

    1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition ; a machine for adding numbers. 2. An electronic device that adds voltage s, current s or frequencies . 3. Something which add s or increase s.

    ***** Derived terms

    {{col|en |adder-subtractor |carry-lookahead adder |carry-save adder |carry-skip adder |full adder |half adder }}

    ***** Translations

    [what performs arithmetic addition]

    - Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [circuit] - Japanese: [ja] - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] - Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh] - Spanish: [es] [trans-bottom]

    [what increases]

    - Finnish: [fi] - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [trans-bottom]

    *** Further reading

    - [pedia]

    *** Anagrams

    - [en] [en] [en]

    ** Afrikaans

    *** Etymology

    From [af], from [af], [dum], [rebracketing] of [dum], [dum], from [af], from [af].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [af] - [af]

    *** Noun

    [s]

    1. [en] , [en]

    ** Dutch

    *** Etymology

    [nl] From [nl], [dum], [dum], [dum], from [nl], from [nl].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [nl] - [nl] - [nl] - [nl]

    *** Noun

    [m]

    1. viper , [en] ; snake of the family [Viperidae] 2. [common viper] , [Vipera berus]

    **** Hypernyms

    - [nl]

    **** Derived terms

    {{col|nl |addergebroed |boomadder |een adder aan zijn borst koesteren |addertje onder het gras |groefkopadder |pofadder }}

    **** Descendants

    - [af] - [dcr]

    *** Anagrams

    - [nl] [nl] [nl]

    ** Norwegian Bokmål

    *** Verb

    [nb]

    1. [nb]

    ** Old Prussian

    *** Etymology

    Borrowed from Early [prg], dialectal variant of [de].

    *** Conjunction

    [prg]

    1. or 2. * [69] 3. but , however 4. * [61] 5. only , but 6. * [39]

    *** References

    - [vol=1]