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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

-iad en · X · etymology 1

Etymology

Based on Iliad.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Forming the name of an epic about the indicated topic.
    • The Athletiad, The Congressiad, The Female Dunciad, The Mooriad, The Popiad, The Rapiad, The Scribleriad

-iad en · X · etymology 2

Etymology

Based on Olympiad, and perhaps also influenced by the common ending iad on units of time formed by suffixing -ad to words ending in -ium, e.g. decenniad.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme, rare) A period of time from one occurrence of an (indicated, regularly recurrent) event to the next.
    • Acrid the temper of the parties, vital the pending questions. Congress convenes; the President sends his Message; Reconstruction is still in abeyance; the nominations and the contest for the twenty-first Presidentiad draw close, [...] 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, page 28:

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