A.

See also: a. and Appendix:Variations of "a"

Translingual

Noun

A. (plural Aa.)

  1. alternative letter-case form of a.

English

Noun

A.

  1. absolute temperature
  2. absorbance; absorbancy
  3. academy; academician
    acad
  4. accommodation
  5. accumulator
  6. accusative case
  7. acid
  8. acre; acres
    A; a.
  9. address
  10. adjutant
  11. administration
  12. admiral
  13. adult
  14. age; aged
  15. air
  16. air branch
  17. aircraft; airplane
  18. airman
  19. alfa
  20. alto
  21. amateur
    a.
  22. ambassador
  23. Americanization
  24. amphibian
  25. amplitude
  26. ana; anna
  27. Angstrom
    Å
  28. annus (a year)
  29. anode
  30. answer
    ans.; ans; A
  31. application
  32. apprentice
  33. aqua
  34. arctic
  35. army
  36. article
  37. artificer
  38. artillery
  39. (military) assault, as on a badge
  40. associate; association
  41. atomic weight
  42. attack
  43. author
  44. automobile

Proper noun

A.

  1. America
    Amer.
  2. (biblical) Amos, the book of
  3. April
  4. Atlantic
  5. August

Adjective

A.

  1. absent
  2. Absolute
  3. accepted
  4. adjusted
  5. alto
  6. American
  7. amphibious
  8. anterior
  9. approved
  10. arctic
  11. arterial
  12. Asian
  13. asked
  14. astragal
  15. asymmetric
  16. atomic
  17. Australian
  18. auxiliary
  19. avancé (fast)

Verb

A.

  1. admit
  2. Americanize

Preposition

A.

  1. after
  2. ante (before)
  3. at

Adverb

A.

  1. annō (Latin for “in the year”)

Latin

Abbreviations

A.

  1. (in dates) ante (“before”)
    A. D.ante diem
  2. (in dates) anno, annus (“year”)
    A. D.anno Domini
    A. U. C.anno urbis conditae
    A. P. R. C.anno post Romam conditam
  3. aquae (“waters”)
    • (Can we date this quote?) Inscriptiones Orelli 1643 sequens; 2620; 3011: A.A.Aquae Aponi (“Abano Terme”)
  4. auro, argento, or aeri (the three directors of the mint)
    • (Can we date this quote?) Inscriptiones Orelli 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 alia: III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F.auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo
  5. agris (“fields”)
    A. D. A. agris dandis adsignandis
    A. I. A. agris judicandis adsignandis
  6. (upon the voting tablets in judicial trials) absolvo (“I free”, “I acquit”)
  7. (in the Roman Comitia) antiquo — “I leave in its former state”, “I reject” [e.g. the point in question]
  8. amicō (“friend”)
    A. O.amico optimo — “best friend”
  9. a (“of, from”)
    A. P.a populo
  10. aediliciae
    A. P.aediliciae potestatis
  11. aerario
    A. P. R.aerario populi Romani
  12. (in Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes, “Tusculan Disputations”) adulescens or auditor, one of the disputants, as opposed to M. for magister or Marcus

Proper noun

A. m (indeclinable)

  1. Praenominal abbreviation of Aulus.
    • 4–5 CE, Inscriptiones Orelli 1530: A. A.Auli duo

Malay

Alternative forms

Proper noun

A.

  1. Abdul (a male given name)

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