addendum

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.

Proto-Italic *-ðō

Latin -dō

Latin addō

Latin addendumlbor.

English addendum

Learned borrowing from Latin addendum, inflection of addendus (“annexed”), future passive participle of addō (“to add”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdɛn.dəm/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /əˈden.dəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛndəm
• Hyphenation: ad‧den‧dum

Noun

addendum (plural addenda or addendums)

2. Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.

   Synonym: (clipping) addend

   An addendum was added to the contract to clarify payment terms.

   The author included an addendum at the end of the book.

3. A postscript.
4. (engineering) The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line.

Translations

something to be added

• Armenian: հավելված (hy) (havelvac), լրացում (hy) (lracʻum)
• Bulgarian: приба́вка (bg) f (pribávka), допълне́ние (bg) n (dopălnénie)
• Catalan: addenda f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 附錄 / 附录 (fu⁶ luk⁶)

  Mandarin: 附件 (zh) (fùjiàn)

• Danish: tillæg n
• Dutch: addendum (nl)
• Esperanto: alaĵo
• Finnish: liite (fi)
• French: addendum (fr)
• Georgian: დანართი (danarti), დოკუმენტის დანართი (doḳumenṭis danarti)
• German: Anhang (de) m, Nachtrag (de) m
• Greek: προσθήκη (el) f (prosthíki), προσάρτημα (el) n (prosártima)
• Hungarian: hozzáfűznivaló
• Ido: adjuntajo (io)
• Indonesian: adendum (id)
• Irish: aguisín m, breis f
• Kannada: ಅನುಬಂಧ (kn) (anubandha)
• Korean: 부록(附錄) (ko) (burok)
• Malay: adendum (ms), penambah
• Malayalam: അനുബന്ധം (ml) (anubandhaṁ)
• Māori: kupu āpiti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tillegg (no) n, tilføyelse m

  Nynorsk: tillegg n, tilføying f

• Polish: addendum (pl) n (in text)
• Portuguese: adendo (pt) m
• Russian: дополне́ние (ru) n (dopolnénije), приба́вка (ru) f (pribávka)
• Spanish: adenda (es) f, addenda f
• Swedish: tillägg (sv) n

See also

• delenda

Latin

Participle

addendum

1. inflection of addendus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.

Proto-Italic *-ðō

Latin -dō

Latin addō

Latin addendumlbor.

Polish addendum

Learned borrowing from Latin addendum. First attested in 1754.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adˈdɛn.dum/
• Rhymes: -ɛndum
• Syllabification: ad‧den‧dum

Noun

addendum n

1. addendum (something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document)
   • 2005, “Ulga dla przyrody i mieszkańców”, in Dziennik Polski‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 February 2023:

     Specjalnym addendum do kontraktu wydłużono termin oddania inwestycji.

     The deadline for commissioning the investment was extended with a special addendum to the contract.

Declension

Declension of addendum

	singular	plural
nominative	addendum	addenda
genitive	addendum	addendów
dative	addendum	addendom
accusative	addendum	addenda
instrumental	addendum	addendami
locative	addendum	addendach
vocative	addendum	addenda