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Addis

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as a patronymic.
  2. 2
    Clipping of Addis Ababa. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

    "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."

  3. 3
    plural of Addi form-of, plural

Etymology

Etymology 1

From a diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix -s.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Addis Ababa.

Etymology 3

From Addi + -s.

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