Noun: adapter
| Singular | adapter |
| Plural | adapters |
Sample Sentences
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He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.
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The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.
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He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.
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Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution. [2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times:]
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The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.
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We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.
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I lost my cellphone's adapter so I couldn't recharge it.
Nouns inflected like adapter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ptós
9. Proto-Italic *aptos
10. Latin aptus
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
12. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
14. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
15. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
16. Proto-Italic *-ājō
17. Proto-Italic *-āō
18. Latin -ō
19. Latin apiō
20. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
21. Proto-Italic *-tos
22. Latin -tus
23. ▲
24. Latin -ō
25. Latin -tō
26. Latin aptō
27. Latin adaptōder.
28. Middle English *adapten
29. English adapt
30. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
31. Proto-Italic *-āzios
32. Latin -āriusnom.
33. Latin -āriusbor.
34. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
35. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
36. Old English -ere
37. Middle English -ere
38. English -er
39. English adapter
40. From adapt + -er.
Verbs referencing "adapter"
German Nouns
Adapter, Finnish Nouns
adapteri, Russian Nouns
адаптер, Ukrainian Nouns
адаптер.