fade

See also: fadé

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feɪd/
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

  1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.
    Synonym: dull
    • Jeffery
      Passages that are somewhat fade.
    • De Quincey
      His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.
Translations

Noun

fade (plural fades)

  1. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
  2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
  3. (slang) A fight.
  4. (music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
Translations

Verb

fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

  1. (intransitive) To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
    • Bible, Is. xxiv. 4
      The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
  2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
    • Milton
      flowers that never fade
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎:
      The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
  3. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
    The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
    • Addison
      The stars shall fade away.
    • Shakespeare
      He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.
    • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
  4. (transitive) To cause to fade.
  5. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.
Synonyms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy, discreet, well-regulated”). See also fad.

Adjective

fade (comparative fader or more fade, superlative fadest or most fade)

  1. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːdə

Adjective

fade

  1. definite of fad
  2. plural of fad

Noun

fade n

  1. plural indefinite of fad

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish fader (“father”)

Noun

fade

  1. (slang) father

Declension

Inflection of fade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative fade fadet
genitive faden fadejen
partitive fadea fadeja
illative fadeen fadeihin
singular plural
nominative fade fadet
accusative nom. fade fadet
gen. faden
genitive faden fadejen
fadeinrare
partitive fadea fadeja
inessive fadessa fadeissa
elative fadesta fadeista
illative fadeen fadeihin
adessive fadella fadeilla
ablative fadelta fadeilta
allative fadelle fadeille
essive fadena fadeina
translative fadeksi fadeiksi
instructive — fadein
abessive fadetta fadeitta
comitative — fadeineen

Synonyms

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of Latin fatuus and vapidus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fad/

Adjective

fade (plural fades)

  1. tasteless, insipid
  2. boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

Noun

fade m (plural fades)

  1. (criminal slang) share of loot / booty

Verb

fade

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fader
  2. third-person singular present indicative of fader
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fader
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fader
  5. second-person singular imperative of fader

Further reading

German

Alternative forms

  • fad (particularly in southern Germany and Austria)

Etymology

From French fade, from Vulgar Latin fatidus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaːdə/
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophone: Pfade (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
  • Rhymes: -aːdə

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative am fadesten or am fadsten)

  1. bland
    • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag
      Solch eine Volkswirtschaftslehre würde der Engländer fade gefunden haben. Man denkt doch über solche Dinge nicht nach, würde er gesagt haben.
      An Englishman would have thought of such an economical theory as bland. He would have said, "One doesn’t think about such things."

Declension

Comparative forms of fade
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist fader sie ist fader es ist fader sie sind fader
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative faderer fadere faderes fadere
genitive faderen faderer faderen faderer
dative faderem faderer faderem faderen
accusative faderen fadere faderes fadere
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der fadere die fadere das fadere die faderen
genitive des faderen der faderen des faderen der faderen
dative dem faderen der faderen dem faderen den faderen
accusative den faderen die fadere das fadere die faderen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein faderer eine fadere ein faderes (keine) faderen
genitive eines faderen einer faderen eines faderen (keiner) faderen
dative einem faderen einer faderen einem faderen (keinen) faderen
accusative einen faderen eine fadere ein faderes (keine) faderen
Superlative forms of fade
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist am fadesten sie ist am fadesten es ist am fadesten sie sind am fadesten
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative fadester fadeste fadestes fadeste
genitive fadesten fadester fadesten fadester
dative fadestem fadester fadestem fadesten
accusative fadesten fadeste fadestes fadeste
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der fadeste die fadeste das fadeste die fadesten
genitive des fadesten der fadesten des fadesten der fadesten
dative dem fadesten der fadesten dem fadesten den fadesten
accusative den fadesten die fadeste das fadeste die fadesten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein fadester eine fadeste ein fadestes (keine) fadesten
genitive eines fadesten einer fadesten eines fadesten (keiner) fadesten
dative einem fadesten einer fadesten einem fadesten (keinen) fadesten
accusative einen fadesten eine fadeste ein fadestes (keine) fadesten

Further reading

  • fade in Duden online
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