ac

See also: Variations of "ac"

ac - English

Pronunciation

Pronunciation depends on if this is an initialism, in which case it is pronounced as the letters A and C, or if it is an abbreviation, in which case it is pronounced as the full word it abbreviates.

The pronunciation of the medical abbreviation depends on the preference of the user or reader, and whether it is translated from Latin or not.

Noun

ac (plural acs)

  1. account; money of account
  2. alicyclic
  3. Abbreviation of acre.
  4. Alternative letter-case form of AC (air conditioning)
  5. (electricity) Alternative letter-case form of AC (alternating current)

Adjective

ac (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) ante cibum, before meals

Anagrams

ac - Aromanian

Alternative forms

Noun

ac n (plural atsi/atse)

  1. needle

ac - Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɑd͡ʒ], [ɑd͡z]
  • (Tabriz) IPA: [ɑʒ], [ad͡z]

Adjective

ac (comparative daha ac, superlative ən ac)

  1. hungry
    • Acından ölürəm.I am starving; I am dying of hunger. (literally, “of its hunger”)
    • Acın andı and olmaz.An oath given by a hungry person is no oath. (proverb)
    • Ac elə bilər hamı acdır, tox elə bilər hamı toxdur.The hungry think that all are hungry, the sated think that all are sated. (proverb)
    • Antonym: tox

Derived terms

ac - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ei1 si1

Noun

ac

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of AC

ac - Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /aːk/

Pronoun

āc (plural āc ihqueh or āquihqueh)

  1. who?

ac - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ak/

Preposition

ac

  1. (Quebec, informal) Pronunciation spelling of avec.

ac - Ladin

Noun

ac

  1. plural of at

ac - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /ak/, [äk]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ak/, [äk]
  • Note: the consonant is geminate /kː/ if a vowel follows.

Conjunction

ac

  1. Alternative form of atque

Usage notes

  • Usually found before words beginning with consonants.

Descendants

  • Sardinian: a

ac - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ak/

Conjunction

ac

  1. but

ac - Middle Welsh

Alternative forms

Conjunction

ac

  1. and

Preposition

ac

  1. with

ac - Old English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɑːk/

Noun

āc f

  1. oak (wood or tree)
  2. (poetic) an oaken ship
  3. (masculine) the runic character (/a/)

Declension

Feminine senses relating to oak:

Name of the rune:

Descendants


Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɑk/

Conjunction

ac

  1. but
    • Sēo æx forġiett, ac þæt trēow ġeman.
      • The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.
  2. but instead: in this sense ac should sometimes be translated as "but," but most often it is best left untranslated
    • Ne ġēotaþ wē tēaras, ac blōd.
      • We don't shed tears, we shed blood.

Descendants

ac - Old Irish

Preposition

ac

  1. Alternative form of oc

ac - Old Saxon

Conjunction

ac

  1. Alternative form of ak

ac - Romanian

Noun

ac n (plural ace)

  1. needle

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ac acul (niște) ace acele
genitive/dative (unui) ac acului (unor) ace acelor
vocative acule acelor

ac - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ak/

Conjunction

ac

  1. Prevocalic form of a (and)
Meaning and Definition of ac
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