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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1374 (Chaucer's Boethius)|origins=la addere}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /æd/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|adden]], [[bor|la|addere|t=to add to, join, attach]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) perhaps through Anglo-French adder,^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|ad-|t=to]] and -dere, a combining form meaning “to put, place”,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MW Collegiate) from [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|alt=*dhe-|t=to put, set]],^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) the root of [[do]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) Klein instead takes -dere from Latin [[m|la|dare|t=to give]].^(Klein 1966)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To join or unite one thing to another as an increase: about 1374, in Chaucer's translation of Boethius,^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) or the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ “To say or write further” is from 1382.^(OED 1989) The arithmetical sense, intransitive “to do sums”, is also from the late 14th century,^(Etymonline) about 1425 in the Historical Thesaurus,^(HTOED) and “to unite numbers into one sum” is from 1509.^(OED 1989) ''Add up'' is from 1754, and its intransitive sense “to make the correct total” from 1850.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) ''To add up to'', “to amount to”, is from 1933,^(OED 1989) and ''add up'' figuratively, “to make sense”, by 1942.^(Etymonline) The ''adding machine'' is from 1822.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1374 – to join as an increase.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1382 – to say further.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1425 – to do sums.^(HTOED)

+ * 1509 – to find the sum of.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1754 – ''add up''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1822 – ''adding machine''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1933 – ''add up to''.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1942 – ''add up'', to make sense.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To combine numbers to find their [[sum]].^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # To join or put something to another so as to increase it.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # To say or write in addition.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # To make an [[addition]]; to increase.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[addable]]

+ * [[addedly]]

+ * [[unadded]]

+ * [[misadd]]

+ * [[superadd]]

+ * [[add-in]]

+ * [[add-on]]

+ * [[adder]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[addend]]

+ * [[addition]]

+ * [[addendum]]

+ * [[additive]]

+ * [[do]]

+ * [[date]]

+ * [[tradition]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''ADD'', in capitals, is the abbreviation of ''attention deficit disorder''.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}