schede

Etymology

From Latin scheda.

Noun

schede (plural schedes)

1. (obsolete) A written paper.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , New York 2001, p.85:

     a deed […] to convey a whole manor was often implicite contained in some twenty lines or thereabouts; like that schede or scytala Laconica, so much renowned of old in all contracts, which Tully so earnestly commends to Atticus […]

Anagrams

• chesed

Etymology

From Middle Dutch schede, from Old Dutch *skētha, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz.

Cognate with Low German scheed, German Scheide, English sheath, Danish skede, Norwegian skjede, Icelandic skeið.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxeː.də/

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• Hyphenation: sche‧de

Noun

schede f (plural scheden or schedes, diminutive schedetje n)

1. sheath, scabbard
2. vagina

Noun

schede f

1. plural of scheda