-dad

First attested in 1283. From the repeated -d (diminutive suffix). Originally, it was a diminutive suffix (cf. kisded). Today it is used to express similarity just like the suffixes -féle and -szerű.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [dɒd]
• Rhymes: -ɒd

-dad

1. (adjective-forming suffix) similar to, sort of, -like, resembling, in the nature of. Added to a word to form an adjective.

   ‎tojás (“egg”) + ‎-dad → ‎tojásdad (“egg-shaped”)

• (adjective-forming suffix) Variants:

  -dad is added to back-vowel words

  -ded is added to front-vowel words

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• -idad, -edad

Inherited from Old Spanish -dat, from Latin -tātem, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts.

-dad f (noun-forming suffix, plural -dades)

1. forms nouns representing the property corresponding to an adjective; -ity

• The bare form -dad only comes after the letters l or n. Adjectives ending in -io and two syllable adjectives take the form -edad. Adjectives ending in -ble take the form -bilidad. Adjectives with three or more syllables take the -idad form.

• “-dad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024