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bade

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Unknown. Coincides with Bulgarian бате (bate), бачо (bačo), Serbo-Croatian bato, bača, Hungarian bátya, which could have been borrowed from Romanian. The term might belong to a substratum word from an Indo-European root for father. Compare baci and Russian батюшка (batjuška).

A relation to the dialectal words *bade ("old") and *bad ("to get old") in Lazio, doesn't appear to be coincidental.

noun bade · badea · badei · -

archaic, common, masculine, uncountable older brother
archaic, common, masculine, uncountable older man
humorous, masculine, uncountable a hillbilly, a yokel, a bumpkin; a poorly educated man from the countryside

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"bade." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/bade. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"bade." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/bade.

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@misc{bade_2026,
  title = {bade},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/bade},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}