Addis
See also: addis
English
Etymology 1
From a diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix -s.
Proper noun
Addis
- A patronymic surname.
Etymology 2
From Addis Ababa
Proper noun
Addis
- Clipping of Addis Ababa.
- 2005, Michela Wrong, I Didn't Do It For You, page 153:
- As Italian soldiers advanced on Addis, Haile Selassie quietly boarded an overloaded train to Djibouti with his wife and five children, brushing aside the remonstrations of aghast Ethiopian notables.
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Anagrams
- diads, disad
Finnish
Etymology
< Addis Abeba
Proper noun
Addis
- (informal) Addis Ababa (Ethiopia's capital city)
Declension
| Inflection of Addis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Addis | — | |
| genitive | Addiksen | — | |
| partitive | Addista | — | |
| illative | Addikseen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Addis | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Addis | — |
| gen. | Addiksen | ||
| genitive | Addiksen | — | |
| partitive | Addista | — | |
| inessive | Addiksessa | — | |
| elative | Addiksesta | — | |
| illative | Addikseen | — | |
| adessive | Addiksella | — | |
| ablative | Addikselta | — | |
| allative | Addikselle | — | |
| essive | Addiksena | — | |
| translative | Addikseksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Addiksetta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |