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-iad

-iad suffix: forming the name of an epic about the indicated topic.

Suffix (1)

-iad

  1. 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

Suffix (2)

-iad

  1. (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

Origin of -iad

Based on Iliad.

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.

Questions about -iad

What does -iad mean?
-iad means forming the name of an epic about the indicated topic.
What part of speech is -iad?
-iad is a suffix.

Words near -iad in the dictionary

  1. -i
  2. -i adjective
  3. -i adjectives
  4. -i-
  5. -ia
  6. -iad
  7. -ial
  8. -ials
  9. -ian
  10. -iana
  11. -ians

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