adware

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English ad

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English adware

From ad + -ware.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈædˌwɛə/

  • Audio (UK):

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈædˌwɛɚ/

Noun

adware (uncountable)

1. (computing) A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware.

Derived terms

• madware

Related terms

• abandonware
• baitware
• crippleware
• demoware
• donationware
• freeware
• malware
• postcardware
• shareware
• spyware
• trialware

Translations

software application

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣告軟件 / 广告软件 (guǎnggào ruǎnjiàn)

• Czech: adware m, reklamní program m, reklamní software m
• Estonian: reklaamvara
• Finnish: mainosohjelma
• French: publiciel (fr) m, logiciel publicitaire (fr) m, logiciel de publicité m
• Georgian: სარეკლამო პროგრამა (sareḳlamo ṗrograma)
• Hungarian: reklámprogram (hu), reklámszoftver (hu)
• Indonesian: peranti iklan
• Irish: bogearraí fógraíochta m pl
• Japanese: アドウェア (adowea)
• Korean: 애드웨어 (aedeuweeo)
• Latvian: reklāmprogrammatūra f
• Malay: perisian iklan, ڤرايسين اعلان (perisian i'lan)
• Norwegian: reklameprogram n
• Polish: oprogramowanie reklamowe n, adware (pl) m
• Portuguese: adware (pt) m
• Russian: рекла́мное ПО n (reklámnoje PO), рекламная программа f (reklamnaja programma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: адвер m, рекламни софтвер m, оглашивачки софтвер m

  Latin: adver m, reklamni softver m, oglašivački softver m

• Slovak: advér m, reklamný softvér m
• Slovene: oglaševalsko programje n, oglaševalska programska oprema f
• Spanish: programa publicitario m, software publicitario m, adware m
• Swedish: reklamprogram n, annonsprogram n

See also

• free software
• open-source software
• public domain software

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

English ad

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English adwarebor.

Czech adware

Borrowed from English adware.

Noun

adware m inan

1. (computing) adware

   Synonyms: reklamní program, reklamní software

Declension

Declension of adware (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	adware	adwary
genitive	adwaru	adwarů
dative	adwaru	adwarům
accusative	adware	adwary
vocative	adware	adwary
locative	adwaru	adwarech
instrumental	adwarem	adwary

Further reading

• adware on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English ad

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English adwareubor.

Portuguese adware

Unadapted borrowing from English adware.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈdwa.ɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈdwa.ɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈdwa.ɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈdwa.ɾɨ/ [ɐˈðwa.ɾɨ]

Noun

adware m (plural adwares)

1. (computing) adware (software application that displays advertisements)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English adware. According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈadweɾ/ [ˈa.ð̞weɾ]
• Rhymes: -adweɾ

Noun

adware m (plural adwares)

1. adware

   Synonyms: programa publicitario, software publicitario

   • 2005, Carlos Valdivia Miranda, Sistemas informáticos y redes locales, Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A., →ISBN, page 32:

     Los desarrolladores usan el adware como recurso para lograr ingresos económicos de sus programas, que usualmente son gratuitos.

     Developers use adware as a resource to get economic income from their programs, which are usually free.