Ada

Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal (“noble”), such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah. The programming language takes its name from Ada Lovelace.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪdə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdə

Ada

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1818 George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the third: I:

     Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! / Ada! Sole daughter of my house and heart?

2. (computer languages) An object-oriented programming language extended from Pascal and other languages.
   • 2019, Andrew T. Shvets, Beginning Ada Programming: From Novice to Professional, Apress, →ISBN, page 11:

     If anything, Ada is actually fairly easy to learn. The syntax is so explicit, that it is much more difficult to misunderstand what the code is doing than in C/C++.

3. A city, the county seat of Norman County, Minnesota, United States
4. A city, the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.

• Ada County

• Ada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ada (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AAD, aad

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈa.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.da/

Ada f

1. a female given name

• Áďa

• IPA^(key): [ˈada]

Ada

1. a female given name and a nickname from women's names beginning with Ad-
2. A diminutive of Czech male given names beginning with Ad-, such as Adam.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Middle Dutch?”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.daː/

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• Hyphenation: Ada

Ada f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta
• Homophone: ata

Ada f

1. a female given name

Ādā

1. ablative singular of Ādām

Short for Germanic names beginning with Adel-, and also of Biblical Hebrew origin. Used as a given name in Norway since the 1850s.

Ada

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 1715 females with the given name Ada living in Norway on January 1st 2011. Accessed on March 29th 2011.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.da/

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: A‧da

Ada f

1. a female given name

• Rhymes: -adɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧da

Ada f

1. (biblical) Adah (wife of Lamech)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1762. Short form of names like Adela, and of biblical Hebrew origin.

Ada c (genitive Adas)

1. Adah (Biblical figure)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Ada

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån: 999 females with the given name Ada living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on March 29th 2011.