cade
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Cade¹
- /keɪd/
Rhymes with -eɪd
Where it comes from
* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense.
* Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”).
* As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
proper noun Cades · Caid · Caide · Cayde · Kade · Kaid
- A surname Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;
- An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
- A surname transferred from the given name
- A surname from French
- A male given name They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
cade²
- /keɪd/
Rhymes with -eɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
adjective
- abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
noun cades
- An animal brought up or nourished by hand. Then on the verdrous Bank, where Spices rose, Rowl on the balmy Grass, or smiling play With her young Cade, her caded Lamb with Smiles Answer'd her Love, and lickt her dainty hand.
verb cades · cading · caded
- To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil. Delicacies are thrown away upon a growing youth; they are quite out of place; his appetite does not require pampering, and cading, and coaxing; moreover, a youth who is made to think a great deal of his stomach is sure to grow up an epicure!
cade³
- /keɪd/
Rhymes with -eɪd
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French cade, from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.
noun cades
- Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
cade⁴
- /keɪd/
Rhymes with -eɪd
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).
noun cades
- A cask or barrel. A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
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noun Juniperus oxycedrus
| Italiano | ginepro rosso |
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