clad

Meanings

Verb

• Past of clothe
• To clothe, to dress.
• To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
• To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

Adjective

• Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
• Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
• Adorned, ornamented.

Origin

• From Middle English clad, cladde, cled, cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen, from Old English clǣðan (past tense clǣðde, *clædde), probably from clǣþ, clāþ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley-.
• From Middle English clad, cladde, clade, past tense and past participle forms of clathen, clothen, from Old English clāðian, clāþian (past participle ġeclāded, ġeclaðed, ġeclaðod), from clāþ, clǣþ; see further at etymology 1.
• Apparently derived from clad; see etymology 2. Uses of clad as the simple past and past participle form of clad are indistinguishable from uses of the word as the simple past and past participle form of clothe.